limit
Definitions
General English
- verb not to allow something to go beyond a certain point
General Science
- noun a furthest point or place beyond which you cannot go
- verb to set a limit on something
Accounting
- verb to stop something from going beyond a specific point, to restrict the number or amount of something
Aviation
- verb to restrict or to prevent from going past a particular point
Cars & Driving
- noun the performance limit of a car’s chassis, tyres, etc.; typically experienced during sharp cornering at high speeds
Economics
- noun the point at which something ends or at which someone can go no further. Limit up and limit down show the upper or lower limits to share price movements which are regulated by some stock exchanges.
Electronics
- The point, line, value, amplitude, magnitude, or the like, beyond which something cannot proceed. For example, a current limit, or a fatigue limit.
- The greatest or least value of a defined interval or range. For instance, the maximum or minimum value a meter can display, or the boundaries of a frequency band.
- To confine within a given interval or range. For instance, to limit both positive and negative voltage swings.
- noun a maximum pre-defined range used to restrict an action or thing
- verb to prevent something from becoming bigger
Origin & History of “limit”
Latin
līmes originally denoted a ‘path
between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and
that was the
sense in
which English acquired it (in its
stem form līmit-).
