limit

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n. 界限, 边界, 限度, 极限, 限制 vt. 限制, 限定

发音

US /ˈlɪm.ɪt/
IN /ˈlɪm.ɪʈ/
IN /lɪmʈ/

词形变化

limits 复数 limits limitating limited limitest limiteth limiting limits 三单 limiting 现在分词 limited 过去式 limited 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

限制；限度；界线

the greatest or least amount, number, speed etc that is allowed

动词

限制；限定

to stop an amount or number from increasing beyond a particular point

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.

    极限

    There are several existing limits to executive power.

    Two drinks is my limit tonight.

    At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.

  2. 2.

    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).

    极限

    数学

    The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.

  3. 3.

    Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

    数学

    Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.

  4. 4.

    The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.

    计算机 工程 数学
  5. 5.

    Fixed limit.

    游戏
  6. 6.

    The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.

    the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country

  7. 7.

    The space or thing defined by limits.

    废旧
  8. 8.

    That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.

    废旧
  9. 9.

    A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.

    废旧
  10. 10.

    A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.

    数学 哲学
  11. 11.

    The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.

    体育
  12. 12.

    A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.

    非正式
  13. 13.

    Ellipsis of harmonic limit.

    音乐
v. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.

    制限

    限制

    及物

    We need to limit the power of the executive.

    I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.

  2. 2.

    To have a limit in a particular set.

    不及物 数学

    The sequence limits on the point a.

  3. 3.

    To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

    废旧

    a limiting friar

adj.
  1. 1.

    Being a fixed limit game.

    游戏

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

bound boundary limitation demarcation demarcation line limit point terminus ad quem

上位词 7

end bound ending extent bounds boundary extremity

下位词 10

reach edge range maximum minimum peak verge utmost brink cutoff
动词

同义词 10

set fix bound determine define throttle confine specify restrict circumscribe

上位词 9

take move act choose select decrease lessen pick out minify

下位词 10

name number tie gate cap reduce define strangle curb reset

相关短语

speed limit [电] 速度限制 time limit 期限 [法] 限期, 期限 limit up [经] 涨停 limit down [经] 跌停 limit cycle [计] 极限环 [化] 极限环 limit point [计] 极限点 limit superior limit inferior limit points limit ordinal [计] 极限序数 limit situation limit situations limit ordinals limit cycles limit bid

词源

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“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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