cramp vs limit

cramp

verb
  • To prohibit movement or expression of. 

  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably. 

  • To form on a cramp. 

  • To affect with cramps or spasms. 

  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron. 

  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp. 

  • To bind together; to unite. 

noun
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry. 

  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. 

  • That which confines or contracts. 

  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape. 

limit

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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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