# Term vs Limit - What's the difference?

term | limit |

## As nouns the difference between term and limit

is that term is term while limit is limit (restriction).

# term

## English

(wikipedia term)

### Noun

(en noun)
• Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
• Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
• That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
• * Francis Bacon
• Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
• (geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
• A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
• A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
• "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
• Relations among people.
• * , chapter=22
• , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
• Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
• (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
• (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
• * Sir W. Hamilton
• The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
• (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
• Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
• (computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
• (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
• (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
• (archaic) A menstrual period.
• * 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
• My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
• (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
• #### Derived terms

{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}

* idiom * lexeme * listeme * word

### Verb

(en verb)
• To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
• *
• * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
• , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}

# limit

## English

### Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .

#### Noun

(en noun)
• A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
• There are several existing limits to executive power.
Two drinks is my limit tonight.
• * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
• It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
• * 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
• 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,
• * 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times , “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.
• (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.
• (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
• Category theory defines a very general 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 ), $\phi_X \circ u = \psi_X$.
• (poker) Short for fixed limit.
• The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
• the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
• * Alexander Pope
• As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
• (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
• * Shakespeare
• The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
• (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• * Shakespeare
• the dateless limit of thy dear exile
• * Shakespeare
• The limit of your lives is out.
• (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
• * Shakespeare
• I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
• (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
• ##### Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restriction
##### Derived 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 limit
##### Descendants
* German: (l)

* bound * function

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• (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
• ### Etymology 2

From (etyl) ; see noun.

#### Verb

(en verb)
• To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
• *
• [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.
• (mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
• (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
• ##### Synonyms
* (restrict) cap; restrict; withstrain