Phrase Hound found 94 phrases and 28 compound words that contain limit. The most common are listed below. Open limit in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 94
- time limitA time by which something must be finished.
- speed limitThe maximum speed permitted by law for vehicles.
- upper limitSynonym of limit superior: The supremum of the set of accumulation points of a given sequence or set.
- lower limitSynonym of limit inferior: The infimum of the set of accumulation points of a given sequence or set.
- credit limitThe maximum amount of credit that a financial institution or other lender will extend to a debtor for a particular line of credit.
- age limitA restriction placed on an activity based on the age of the participants; either lower or higher limit.
- limit pointGiven a subset S of a given topological space T, any point p whose every neighborhood contains some point, distinct from p, which belongs to S.
- term limitThe maximum number of terms that a person may legally serve in a particular elected office.
- Detection limit
- push the limitTo do something that fully exerts one's physical capability.
- fixed limitA form of poker game where bets and raises can only be a single size as specified by the rules.
- direct limitA set of equivalence classes which partition the disjoint union of the members of a direct system; each equivalence class being a sort of “drainage basin” of the mappings (of the morphisms) of the direct system, if these are analogically …
- limit comparison testA test for determining whether an infinite series converges, which involves calculating the limit of the ratio between the series being tested and one known to converge or diverge.
- the sky is the limitNothing is impossible or out of reach.
- limit cycleA closed trajectory in phase space of a dynamical system having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches minus-infinity.
- limit downA condition in which the market price of a commodity has fallen by the maximum daily amount permitted by the exchange.
- limit switchOriginally, a device used to define the limit of travel of an object.
- pushing the limitpresent participle and gerund of push the limit
- limit superiorThe supremum of the set of accumulation points of a given sequence or set.
- pushed the limitsimple past and past participle of push the limit
- limit bidAn offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.
- city limitThe boundaries of a city.
- limit breakA special move accompanied by a cinematic sequence, accessible when a character's power gauge has filled up to a certain point.
- limit orderAn order to buy a security at no more than, or sell at no less than, a specified price, thus not performing the transaction at all if this price is not available.
- limit pointsplural of limit point: Given a subset S of a given topological space T, any point p whose every neighborhood contains some point, distinct from p, which belongs to S.
Compound words 28
- limitationThe act of limiting or the state of being limited.
- lintelA horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
- unlimitTo free from limitations.
- colimitThe dual of a limit; the cocone of a diagram through which any other cocone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- overlimitHaving more money being charged on a credit card than what is available as credit.
- antilimitThe result produced by the formula for the limit of a parameterized series applied to any parameter values in which the series is not convergent.
- limitableAble to be limited.
- sublimitA secondary or subsidiary limit.
- bandlimitThe limiting frequency of a signal beyond which the intensity of the signal is zero
- limitiveInvolving or setting a limit; limiting.