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Original entry ↗A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed. · 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). · Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. · The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.
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