limit vs tamper

limit

noun
  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • 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 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. 

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

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

tamper

noun
  • A person or thing that tamps. 

  • A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe. 

  • An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion. 

  • A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast. 

verb
  • To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something). 

  • To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone). 

  • To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules. 

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