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