limit vs nether

limit

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. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

nether

verb
  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. 

  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. 

  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. 

  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. 

  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. 

adj
  • Lower; under. 

  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface. 

noun
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. 

  • A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal. 

adv
  • Down; downward. 

  • Low; low down. 

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