Expectation vs Limit - What's the difference?
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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
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That which is expected or looked for.
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The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
*1816 , (Jane Austen), , Vol.1 Ch.7:
*:Emma was not sorry to be pressed. She read, and was surprized. The style of the letter was much above her expectation . There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer. It was short, but expressed good sense, warm attachment, liberality, propriety, even delicacy of feeling. She paused over it, while Harriet stood anxiously watching for her opinion, with a "Well, well," and was at last forced to add, "Is it a good letter? or is it too short?"
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
(lb) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
(lb) The arithmetic mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
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* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times ,
(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).
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
(category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), .
(poker) Short for fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
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(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
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(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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(logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
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(mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
As nouns the difference between expectation and limit
is that expectation is the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen while limit is a restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.As an adjective limit is
being a fixed limit game.As a verb limit is
to restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.expectation
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
Usage notes
* (value of any chance) Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.Synonyms
* (sense) arithmetic mean; averageSee also
* (statistics)limit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
“Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- The limit of your lives is out.
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restrictionDerived terms
* age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limitDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* bound * functionAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; see noun.Verb
(en verb)- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
