2. Verb. (third-person singular of limit) ¹
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Definition of Limits
1. limit [v] - See also: limit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limits
Literary usage of Limits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"Their limits and bounds are necessarily defined by the authority which creates
them, and the area embraced within those limits constitute the port. ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
"limits in Geometry ARTHUR LATHAM BAKER, PH.D., MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL,
BROOKLYN, NY HE word limit is used here in the sense illustrated by the series ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"limits OF THE TOWNSHIP The township of New England is a division which stands
between the commune and the canton of France, and which corresponds ..."
4. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)
"OF THE limits TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL. WHAT, then, is
the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? ..."
5. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America by Timothy Pitkin (1835)
"Great Britain, France and Spain, had original and undefined claims, to all North
America ; and, in addition to the limits secured from the former, ..."
6. Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects by Osborne Reynolds, Arthur William Brightmore, William Henry Moorby (1901)
"ON THE FUNDAMENTAL limits TO SPEED. I. [From "The Engineer," ... That there are
circumstances on which these limits depend must be generally recognised ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"a certain age lie between narrow limits are treated alone, the variability ...
The grouping, however, is not favorable, the limits of the lowest and highest ..."