limit vs term

Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

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). 

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

To have a limit in a particular set. 

That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

The time during which legal courts are open. 

Certain days on which rent is paid. 

Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

Relations among people. 

A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

One whose employment has been terminated 

Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

Born or delivered at term.