(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.
Rubicon
Definition:
(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(2) He said he accepted the principle of independent regulation, arguing that the current system "is badly broken and it has let down victims" – but insisted that any proposal to underpin a new regulator with a law, as proposed by Leveson, would "cross the Rubicon" of state intervention into press freedom.
(3) On 1 August Palmer told Guardian Australia his senators were firmly against any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(4) The prime minister has said a press law would be "crossing the Rubicon" but it is understood that a "dab of statute" which would underpin a royal charter and ban the privy council from amending any charter would be acceptable to Associated, News International and the Telegraph.
(5) Glasenberg, says one person who knows how much he anguished over the decision to take Glencore public, is well aware that he "has crossed the Rubicon".
(6) He believes the prime minister's main reservation, his "Rubicon", has been addressed.
(7) It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar’s crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all.” The speeches we believe to be most decisive can come only from those speeches we have heard about.
(8) He was taken to Govan police station, the base for Operation Rubicon, the inquiry set up to investigate alleged perjury at the trial.
(9) In 1986 he made perhaps his biggest blunder, his infamous "Rubicon" speech.
(10) Tony Yates, a professor of economics at Birmingham University and a former Bank insider, says: “Once they’ve crossed the Rubicon of doing it, what would be to stop the political clamour for using QE to pay for something else?
(11) I have three concerns: First, a change in the law to permit assisted suicide would cross a fundamental legal and ethical Rubicon.
(12) Ehab Badawy claims that Egypt has "crossed the democratic rubicon" in the recent presidential election ( Letters, 3 June ).
(13) iPad Great Little War Game 2 (£1.99) Developer Rubicon Development has won a wide following with its little and big war games.
(14) Palmer said Australia’s health system was much more efficient than the one in the US, and the PUP senators were united in their opposition to any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(15) We will take deep breaths and cross the Rubicon with you, or at least the Firth of Forth.
(16) It may be that [the government has] crossed a Rubicon and decided that [mass] data-gathering exercises are something [it] should try out – but you can't have it under the existing regime."
(17) Diluted soil samples (Rubicon fine sand, Entic Haplorthods [pH 5.9]) were plated on soil extract-glucose agar containing radioactive 65Zn.
(18) We’ve made it into the final and crossed the Rubicon.
(19) He was not, he said, willing to pass that Rubicon .
(20) What caught the headlines was Cameron's call for an in-out referendum on renegotiated terms – apparently a Rubicon.