essence vs limit

essence

noun
  • A significant feature of something. 

  • Constituent substance. 

  • The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process. 

  • A being; especially, a purely spiritual being. 

  • An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative. 

  • The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory. 

  • The inherent nature of a thing or idea. 

  • Fragrance, a perfume. 

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. 

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

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