duplicate vs limit

duplicate

adj
  • In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players. 

  • Being the same as another; identical, often having been copied from an original. 

verb
  • To produce something equal to. 

  • To make a copy of. 

  • To do repeatedly; to do again. 

noun
  • One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy. 

  • A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item. 

  • The game of duplicate bridge. 

  • The game of duplicate Scrabble. 

  • A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species. 

  • An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original 

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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