limit : Idioms & Phrases

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age limit

  • noun regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position
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city limit

  • noun the limits of the area occupied by a city or town
    city limit.
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city limits

  • noun the limits of the area occupied by a city or town
    city limit.
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debt limit

  • noun the maximum borrowing power of a governmental entity
    debt ceiling.
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Elastic limit

  • (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proportional to the stress producing it.
Webster 1913

Jail liberties, ∨ Jail limits

  • a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott.
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limit point

  • noun the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
    limit; point of accumulation.
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limited audit

  • noun an audit of limited scope (limited in time span or confined to particular accounts etc.)
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limited company

  • noun a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability
    Ltd.; Ld..
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limited edition

  • noun an edition that is restricted to a specific number of copies
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limited liability

  • noun the liability of a firm's owners for no more than the capital they have invested in the firm
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limited review

  • noun (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
    review.
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limited war

  • noun a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy
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Limiting parallels

  • (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.
Webster 1913

lower limit

  • noun the smallest possible quantity
    minimum.
  • noun the limit on the lower (or southernmost) side of something
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Lunar ecliptic limit

  • (Astron.), the space of 12° on the moon's orbit from the node, within which, if the moon happens to be at full, it will be eclipsed.
Webster 1913

off-limits

  • adjective satellite barred to a designated group
    out-of-bounds.
    • that area is off-limits
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Prison limits

  • a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.
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self-limited

  • adjective relating to a disease that tends to run a definite course without treatment
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sex-limited

  • adjective relating to characteristics that are expressed differently in the two sexes
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Solar ecliptic limit

  • the space of 17° from the lunar node, within which, if a conjunction of the sun and moon occur, the sun will be eclipsed.
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speed limit

  • noun regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road
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three-mile limit

  • noun the limit of a nation's territorial waters
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time limit

  • noun a time period within which something must be done or completed
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to the limit

  • adverb in full
    to the hilt.
    • you are in this to the hilt
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upper limit

  • noun the largest possible quantity
    maximum.
  • noun the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something
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