dominant vs limit

dominant

noun
  • A species or organism that is dominant. 

  • The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. 

  • The triad built on the dominant tone. 

  • A gene that is dominant. 

  • The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity. 

adj
  • Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance. 

  • Ruling; governing; prevailing 

  • Being the dominant 

  • Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one. 

  • Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation. 

limit

noun
  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • 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). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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