limit vs pinion

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. 

pinion

verb
  • To restrain; to limit. 

  • To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying. 

  • To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding. 

noun
  • The smallest gear in a gear train. 

  • Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing. 

  • A moth of the genus Lithophane. 

  • The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body. 

  • A wing. 

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