extreme vs limit

extreme

noun
  • The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition. 

  • A drastic expedient. 

  • Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6. 

  • Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale. 

adj
  • Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. 

  • Drastic, or of great severity. 

  • Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment. 

  • Excessive, or far beyond the norm. 

  • In the greatest or highest degree; intense. 

limit

noun
  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • 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 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. 

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

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