limit vs supernumerary

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. 

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. 

supernumerary

adj
  • Beyond what is necessary; redundant. 

  • Of an organ or structure: additional to what is normally present. 

  • Greater in number than. 

  • Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra. 

noun
  • An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier. 

  • An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single. 

  • A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution. 

  • A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary). 

  • Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number. 

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