limit

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.
    — There are several existing limits to executive power.
  2. A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
    — The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
  3. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
    — Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
  4. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  5. Fixed limit.
  6. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
    — the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
  7. The space or thing defined by limits. obsolete
    — The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
  8. That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. obsolete
    — the dateless limit of thy dear exile
  9. A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance. obsolete
    — I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
  10. A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  11. The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  12. A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. colloquial
    — Englehorn looked at his employer in incredulous admiration. ‘You’re the limit,’ he declared.
  13. Ellipsis of harmonic limit. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
动词 v.
  1. To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. transitive
    — We need to limit the power of the executive.
  2. To have a limit in a particular set. intransitive
    — The sequence limits on the point a.
  3. To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region. obsolete
    — a limiting friar
形容词 adj.
  1. Being a fixed limit game. not-comparable

词形变化

limits plural limits present,singular,third-person limiting participle,present limited participle,past limited past

词汇关系

近义词
bound boundary limitation restriction threshold rim
衍生词
age limit antilimit Armstrong limit Atterberg limit Betz limit blowdown limit Bremermann's limit cash limit central limit theorem Chandrasekhar limit Chu-Harrington limit city limit(s) colimit credit limit Dawes resolution limit Deutsch limit diffraction limit direct limit dizzy limit Eddington limit elastic limit Gabrielli-von Karman limit giddy limit Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit GZK limit Hayashi limit Hayflick limit in the limit Kármán limit Landauer limit limital limitarian limitation limit bid limit break limit cardinal limit case limit comparison test limit cycle limit down limit inferior limitive limitless limit line limit of positive stability limit order limit ordinal limit point limit screw limit situation limit superior limit switch limit up lintel lower limit McDowell limit McQ limit McQuary limit no limit outer limit overlimit pot limit push the limit quantum limit rate limit Rayleigh's resolution limit Roche limit Shannon limit Shockley-Queisser limit sky's-the-limit Sparrow's resolution limit speed limit spread limit sublimit superlimit term limit term-limit the sky is the limit the sky's the limit ticket time limit time-limit time limit to the limit unlimit upper limit von Karman limit wonderful limit limitable limit out prelimit self-limiting

词源

词源 1
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
词源 2
From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.
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