A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.
Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
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.
Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
To have a limit in a particular set.