(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) The space or thing defined by limits.
(v. t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
(v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
(v. t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
(9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
(16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
(19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
Outlying
Definition:
(a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
Example Sentences:
(1) After excluding drop outs, 41 patients were treated in each group.
(2) SJ Burnley Ins Michael Keane (Man Utd, £2m) Outs None Sean Dyche’s aim was to retain Danny Ings at all costs and secure more Premier League experience.
(3) His victim was outed on social media following his conviction.
(4) Outs Andros Townsend (Newcastle United, £12m, left), Kenny McEvoy (York City, undisc.
(5) The mean of the within-person to between-person variance ratios, after exclusion of two outlying foods, was 3.4 for untransformed portion sizes, and 3.2 after portion sizes were loge-transformed.
(6) 12.12am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 1st Matt Holliday, the scariest guy this series but he grounds out to Napoli who makes a nice play to beat him out and it's a 1-2-3 inning even if those weren't the softest outs ever.
(7) In summer months, this could subject New Yorkers to power shortages and the risk of black-outs because of the extra need for air conditioning.
(8) This procedure ensures that the routines identify and deal with any outlying data points.
(9) The pages have many cross-outs and insertions in meticulous penmanship – with an open acknowledgment that some of the maths was beyond even him.
(10) Amy Lawrence Liverpool Ins Marko Grujic (Red Star Belgrade, £5,1m); Steven Caulker (Queens Park Rangers, loan), Kevin Stewart (Swindon, recalled from loan), Tiago Ilori (Aston Villa, recalled from loan) Outs Marko Grujic (Red Star Belgrade, loan); Ryan Fulton (Portsmouth, loan); Allan Rodrigues de Souza (Sint Truidense, loan) Jürgen Klopp’s first transfer window as Liverpool manager was frustrated by Shakhtar Donetsk’s €70m valuation of Alex Teixeira and their insistence the Brazilian forward will not be sold until the summer.
(11) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
(12) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(13) What football needs right now is a strong leader, an experienced leader, a leader who knows all the ins and outs of the situation,” he said.
(14) The lack of drop-outs and the results of a questionnaire indicated that acceptance of the treatment by the children was excellent.
(15) However, we voluntarily disclose our more than 300,000 donors and post our audited financial statements on our website along with the 990s for anyone to see.” Separately, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (Chai), the foundation’s flagship programme, is refiling its form 990s for at least two years, 2012 and 2013, a Chai spokeswoman, Maura Daley, said, describing the incorrect government grant break-outs for those two years as typographical errors.
(16) Proportion of drop-outs at the annual follow-up examinations was less than 10%.
(17) Several weeks of sub-zero temperatures in many parts of the country led to a huge number of call outs, and the company was unable to cope.
(18) The drop-outs' reasons for terminating treatment are compared with the comments of patients who completed the therapy successfully.
(19) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
(20) Meanwhile, on the same day, Max Mosley, the former Formula One boss outed by the News of the World for participating in a sado-masochistic orgy, lost his legal challenge to force newspapers to warn people before publishing stories exposing their private lives, after a European court ruled on Tuesday that such as system would have a "chilling effect" on the press.