Scope vs. Limit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Scope and Limit
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Scope
The range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions
Broaden one's scope by reading.
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.
Scope
The opportunity or possibility to function or be active
Gave her imagination broad scope.
Limit
Limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds
Within the city limits.
Scope
The extent of a given activity or subject that is involved, treated, or relevant
The scope of the debate.
ADVERTISEMENT
Limit
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
Scope
The length or sweep of a mooring cable.
Limit
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible
A withdrawal limit of $200.
No minimum age limit.
Scope
(Linguistics) The range over a part of a sentence or discourse that a quantifier has an effect on.
Limit
(Games) The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance.
Scope
A viewing instrument such as a periscope, microscope, or telescope.
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.
Scope
To examine or investigate, especially visually
Scoped the landscape for signs of wildlife.
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.
Scope
To examine using an optical instrument such as a telescope or an endoscope
Scoped the stars around Orion.
Scoped the patient's esophagus.
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.
Scope
The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
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.
Scope
(weapons) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
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.
Scope
Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
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.
Scope
(programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
Limit
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
Scope
(logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
Limit
(category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Scope
(linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
The scope of an adverb
Limit
(poker) Fixed limit.
Scope
(slang) A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
Limit
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
The limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
Scope
Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Limit
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
Scope
(obsolete) A bundle, as of twigs.
Limit
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Scope
To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
Limit
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
Scope
To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
Scope
To define the scope of something.
Limit
(cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
Scope
(programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
Limit
A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
Scope
(informal) To examine under a microscope.
The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
Limit
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Scope
To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
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.
Scope
That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
Your scope is as mine own,So to enforce or qualify the lawsAs to your soul seems good.
The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.
Limit
To have a limit in a particular set.
The sequence limits on the point a.
Scope
Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
Give him line and scope.
In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws which man must always fail to discern the reasons of.
Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind.
An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope.
Limit
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
A limiting friar
Scope
Extended area.
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.
Scope
Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
Limit
The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided itInto three limits very equally.
Scope
To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
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.
Scope
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
The range of a supersonic jet
The ambit of municipal legislation
Within the compass of this article
Within the scope of an investigation
Outside the reach of the law
In the political orbit of a world power
Limit
A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Scope
The state of the environment in which a situation exists;
You can't do that in a university setting
Limit
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
Scope
A magnifier of images of distant objects
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.
Scope
Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
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
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Background vs. Landscape
Next Comparison
Putty vs. Mastic
