limit vs squint

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. 

squint

verb
  • To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. 

  • To look or glance sideways. 

  • To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely. 

  • To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus. 

  • To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. 

  • To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something. 

noun
  • An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. 

  • A quick or sideways glance. 

  • A hagioscope. 

  • A short look; a peep. 

  • The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna. 

  • The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. 

adj
  • Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted. 

  • askew, not level 

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