fingerprint vs limit

fingerprint

noun
  • A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something. 

  • The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual. 

  • Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem. 

  • A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement. 

  • The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface. 

verb
  • To take somebody's fingerprints. 

  • To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements. 

limit

noun
  • 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. 

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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