Look up: limit

1. Limit
   Is an order which is to be filled at that stated price or better. Or better means a lower than the stated price for a buy or a higher than the stated price for a sale.
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2. Limit
   The maximum price fluctuation permitted by an exchange from the previous session`s settlement price for a given contract.
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3. limit
   [n] - the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity 2. [n] - the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed 3. [n] - as far as something can go 4. [n] - the boundary of a specific area 5. [n] - the greatest po...
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4. Limit
   The number you approach as you plug values into a function, and the values get closer and closer to a given number. See also: Infinite, Infinitesimal.
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5. limit
   each of the two extreme permissible sizes of a part between which the actual size should lie,the limits being included Category: Standards, measures and testing
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6. Limit
   In Ovid databases you can use the Limits feature to restrict your searches in many ways, including: year, language, type of publication, human/animal species, type of journal. There is a demonstration of the Limits feature in the Medline tour in Databases.
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7. Limit
   Lim'it (lĭm'ĭt) noun [ From Latin limes , limitis : confer French limite ; or from English limit , v. See Limit , transitive verb ] 1. That which terminates, circumscribe...
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8. Limit
   Lim'it (lĭm'ĭt) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Limited ; present participle & verbal noun Limiting .] [ French limiter , Latin limitare , from
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9. Limit
   Lim'it intransitive verb To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar. [ Obsolete]
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10. limit
    1. 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 maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.' (Pope) ... 2. The...
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11. limit
    demarcation noun the boundary of a specific area
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12. limit
    bound noun the greatest possible degree of something; `what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior`; `to the limit of his ability`
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13. limit
    limitation noun 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`
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14. limit
    point of accumulation noun the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
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15. Limit
    See Trading Limit.
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16. Limit
    • (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 beco...
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17. limit
    (from the article `insurance`) Practically all liability insurance policies contain limitations on the maximum amount of a judgment payable under the contract. Further, the cost of ...
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18. limit
    mathematical concept based on the idea of closeness, used primarily to assign values to certain functions at points where no values are defined, in ... [6 related articles]
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19. Limit
    [calculus] Biotech Building Scott Kashkin own work attribution required ...
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20. LIMIT
    Maximum amount of insurance that can be paid for a covered loss.
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21. Limit
    [music] In music theory, limit or harmonic limit is a way of characterizing the harmony found in a piece or genre of music, or the harmonies that can be made using a particular scale. The term was introduced by Harry Partch, who used it to give an upper bound on the complexity of harmony; he...
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22. Limit
    [category theory] In category theory, a branch of mathematics, the abstract notion of a limit captures the essential properties of universal constructions such as products and inverse limits. The dual notion of a colimit generalizes constructions such as disjoint unions, direct sums, coprodu...
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23. Limit
    state (F etat limit, R stare limita) State at which performance criteria are just met
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24. limit
    
    • the greatest possible degree of something
    • the boundary of a specific area
    • as far as something can go
    • the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
    • a mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
    
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25. limit
    The target value that terms in a sequence of numbers get closer and closer to. This limit is not necessarily ever reached but can be approached arbitrarily close if the sequence is taken far enough. More precisely, if the terms of an infinite series approach a definite value l in such a way that i...
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