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lymiter

lymiter is the obsolete form of limiter.

Meaning of limiter

Noun

limiter (plural limiters)

  1. That which limits or confines.
    • The limiter automatically put on the brakes to keep the machine from going too fast.
  2. A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
  3. (historical) A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.

Forms of lymiter

plurallymiters

Questions about lymiter

What is lymiter the obsolete form of?
Lymiter is the obsolete form of limiter.

Words near lymiter in the dictionary

  1. Lyminge
  2. Lymington
  3. Lymington and Pennington
  4. Lyminster
  5. Lyminster and Crossbush
  6. lymiter
  7. lymiters
  8. Lymm
  9. lymnaeid
  10. lymnaeids
  11. lymnocardiid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lymiter (page history and authors); limiter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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