n.
- a point beyond which something does not or may not pass or extend.
▸a terminal point or boundary.
▸the furthest extent of one's endurance.
- a restriction on the size or amount of something:
an age limit.
- Mathematics a value which a sequence, function, or sum can be made to approach progressively.
v.
(limits, limiting, limited)
set or serve as a limit to.
Phrase
- be the limit
informal be intolerable. - off limits
out of bounds. - within limits
up to a point; moderately.
Derivative
- limitary adj. (rare).
- limitative adj.
- limiter n.
Etymology
ME: from L. limes, limit- ‘boundary, frontier’; the verb is from L. limitare, from limes.