cutoff vs limit

cutoff

adj
  • Constituting a limit or ending. 

  • Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar. 

noun
  • A cessation in a flow or activity. 

  • A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut. 

  • The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited. 

  • A device that stops the flow of a current. 

  • A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off). 

  • Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers. 

  • The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop. 

  • A horizontal line separating sections of the page. 

  • A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization. 

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. 

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. 

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