condition vs limit

condition

verb
  • To place conditions or limitations upon. 

  • To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner. 

  • To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). 

  • To contract; to stipulate; to agree. 

  • To subject to the process of acclimation. 

  • To shape the behaviour of someone to do something. 

  • To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. 

  • To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college. 

  • To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on. 

  • To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise. 

noun
  • A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. 

  • A requirement or requisite. 

  • The health status of a medical patient. 

  • A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness. 

  • A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. 

  • The state or quality. 

  • A particular state of being. 

limit

verb
  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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

noun
  • 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. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • 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. 

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