limit vs sequester

limit

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

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. 

sequester

verb
  • To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw. 

  • To separate in order to store. 

  • To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. 

  • To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound 

  • To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget. 

  • To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. 

  • To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. 

  • To seize and hold enemy property. 

  • To withdraw; to retire. 

  • To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims. 

noun
  • sequestration; separation 

  • A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee 

  • A sequestrum. 

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