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

Example: There are several existing limits to executive power.

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).

Example: The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.

Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.

Example: Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.

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

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

Example: I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.

To have a limit in a particular set.

Example: The sequence limits on the point a.

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

Example: a limiting friar