limit

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The point, edge, or line beyond which something ends, may not go, or is not allowed.
• noun The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds.
• noun Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint.
• noun The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible.
• noun Games The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
• noun A number or point L that is approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)−L| < ε if |x−a| < δ.
• noun A number or point L that is approached by a sequence b_n if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number N such that |b_n−L| < ε if n > N.
• noun Informal One that is intolerable, remarkable, or extreme in some other way.
• transitive verb To confine or restrict with a limit.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To restrict within limits; bound; set bounds to.
• To assign to a limit or confine; fix within a limit; allot.
• To fix as a limit; assign exclusively or specifically.
• To exercise any function, as begging, within a limited district: as, a limiting friar.
• noun Inpoker, an amount, agreed upon before play begins, by which any one player may increase his bet over that of another. Sometimes called the raise.
• noun A definite terminal or border line; a boundary; that which bounds or circumscribes in a material manner; as, the northern limit of a field or town; the limits of a country.
• noun A terminal line or point in general; the extent or reach beyond which continuity ceases; a fixed term or bound as to amount, supply, continuance, inclusion, or the like: used of both material and immaterial things: as, to reach the limit of one's resources; the limit of vision or of resistance; to set limits to one's ambition.
• noun That which is within or defined by limits; confine; district; region.
• noun A logical term. See the quotation.
• noun In mathematics, the precise boundary between two continuous regions of magnitude or quantity; especially, the point at which a variable upon which some function depends passes through infinity.
• noun A limb, as a limit or extremity of the body.
• noun Synonyms Confine, termination, bourn, precinct, boundary, frontier (see boundary); restriction, restraint, check.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
• transitive verb To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits
• transitive verb (Astron.) those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
• noun That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent
• noun The space or thing defined by limits.
• noun That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• noun A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
• noun (Logic & Metaph.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
• noun (Math.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
• noun See under Elastic.
• noun a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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 category theory Given diagram F : J → C, a cone (L, φ) from L ∈ Ob(C) to F is the limit of F if it has the universal property that for any other cone (N, ψ) from N ∈ Ob(C) to F there is a unique morphism u : N → L such that for all X ∈ Ob(J), .
• noun poker Short for fixed limit.
• noun The final, utmost, or furthest point.
• adjective poker Being a fixed limit game.
• verb transitive To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• verb mathematics, intransitive To have a limit in a particular set.
• verb obsolete To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the greatest possible degree of something
• noun final or latest limiting point
• noun the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
• noun as far as something can go
• verb restrict or confine,
• verb place limits on (extent or access)
• verb decide upon or fix definitely