Limit vs. Maximum — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Limit and Maximum
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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.
Maximum
As great, high, or intense as possible or permitted
The vehicle's maximum speed
A maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment
Limit
Limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds
Within the city limits.
Maximum
The greatest amount, extent, or intensity possible, permitted, or recorded
Production levels are near their maximum
The school takes a maximum of 32 pupils
Limit
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
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Maximum
At the most
The table has a length of 4 feet maximum
Limit
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible
A withdrawal limit of $200.
No minimum age limit.
Maximum
The greatest possible quantity or degree.
Limit
(Games) The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
Maximum
The greatest quantity or degree reached or recorded; the upper limit of variation.
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.
Maximum
The time or period during which the highest point or degree is attained.
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.
Maximum
An upper limit permitted by law or other authority.
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.
Maximum
The moment when a variable star is most brilliant.
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.
Maximum
The magnitude of the star at such a moment.
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.
Maximum
The greatest value assumed by a function over a given interval.
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.
Maximum
The largest number in a set.
Limit
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
Maximum
Having or being the greatest quantity or the highest degree that has been or can be attained
Maximum temperature.
Limit
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Maximum
Of, relating to, or making up a maximum
A maximum number in a series.
Limit
(poker) Fixed limit.
Maximum
The highest limit.
Limit
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
Maximum
(mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
Limit
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
Maximum
(analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
Limit
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Maximum
(statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
Limit
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Maximum
(snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Maximum
A score of 180 with three darts.
Limit
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Maximum
A scoring shot for 6 runs.
Limit
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Maximum
To the highest degree.
Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.
Limit
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Maximum
The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; - opposed to minimum.
Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.
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.
Maximum
Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
Limit
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
Maximum
The largest possible quantity
Limit
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
A limiting friar
Maximum
The greatest possible degree;
He tried his utmost
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.
Maximum
The point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right
Limit
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided itInto three limits very equally.
Maximum
The greatest or most complete or best possible;
Maximal expansion
Maximum pressure
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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