Limit vs. Max — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Limit and Max
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Limit
The point, edge, or line beyond which something ends, may not go, or is not allowed
The 12-mile fishing limit.
The limit of my patience.
Max
The maximum
The car can seat five adults, but that's the max.
Limit
Limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds
Within the city limits.
Max
Maximal.
Limit
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
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Max
Maximally
We'll pay $250 max.
Limit
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible
A withdrawal limit of $200.
No minimum age limit.
Max
To reach one's limit, as of endurance or capability
The weightlifter maxed out at 180 kilograms.
Limit
(Games) The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
Max
To reach a point from which no additional growth, improvement, or benefit is possible
The salary for this position maxes at $65,000.
Limit
A number or point L that is approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)-L| < ε if |x-a| < δ.
Max
(informal) maximum; maximal.
Limit
A number or point L that is approached by a sequence bn if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number N such that |bn-L| < ε if n > N. Also called limit point.
Max
(informal) maximum
Limit
(Informal) One that is intolerable, remarkable, or extreme in some other way
"That's the limit!" the babysitter exclaimed after the child spilled a glass of milk.
Max
(informal) An extreme, a great extent.
He pushed himself to the max.
Limit
To confine or restrict with a limit
Let's limit the discussion to what is doable. The offer limits us to three for a dollar.
Max
Gin.
Limit
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
Max
To reach the limit; to reach the maximum.
He maxed out his odds of dating Rebecca.
She maxed out all her credit cards while she was out of work.
Limit
(mathematics) 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).
The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
Max
Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
Limit
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
Limit
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Limit
(poker) Fixed limit.
Limit
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
Limit
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
Limit
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Limit
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Limit
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Limit
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Limit
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Limit
(transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
We need to limit the power of the executive.
I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
Limit
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
Limit
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
A limiting friar
Limit
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
As eager of the chase, the maidBeyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
Limit
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided itInto three limits very equally.
Limit
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile.
The limit of your lives is out.
Limit
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
Limit
A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
Limit
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
Limit
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
Limit
The greatest possible degree of something;
What he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior
To the limit of his ability
Limit
Final or latest limiting point
Limit
The boundary of a specific area
Limit
As far as something can go
Limit
The mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
Limit
The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed;
There are limits on the amount you can bet
It is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight
Limit
Place limits on (extent or access);
Restrict the use of this parking lot
Limit the time you can spend with your friends
Limit
Restrict or confine,
I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
Limit
Decide upon or fix definitely;
Fix the variables
Specify the parameters
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