limit

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  2. Verb.  (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
  3. Noun.  A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) 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).
  5. Noun.  (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  6. Noun.  (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  7. Noun.  The final, utmost, or furthest point.
  8. Adjective.  (poker) Being a fixed limit game.

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