limit vs miniature

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. 

miniature

noun
  • A particular feature or trait. 

  • A token in a game representing a unit or character. 

  • A musical composition which is short in duration. 

  • A small version of something; a model of reduced scale. 

  • Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale. 

  • Lettering in red; rubric distinction. 

  • An illustration in an illuminated manuscript. 

  • The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works. 

  • A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature. 

  • A chess game which is concluded with very few moves. 

verb
  • To make smaller than normal; to reproduce in miniature. 

adj
  • Smaller than normal. 

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