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The correct spelling is limits.
How to pronounce limits
/ˈlɪmɪts/
nounIPA: /ˈlɪmɪts/
Say it like: Lim-its
The correct spelling is limits. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. For example: "There are several existing limits to executive power."
Usage Examples
“There are several existing limits to executive power.”
“The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.”
“Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- 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).
- 3.Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- 4.The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- 5.Fixed limit.
verb
- 1.To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- 2.To have a limit in a particular set.
- 3.To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
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