limit
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When limit helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
I L M T
Two-Letter Start
LI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IT
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- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- LI start
- IT ending
- repeated letters
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- limit is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include i, l, m, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (I x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The IT ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the LI start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
"There are several existing limits to executive power."
noun
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).
"The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
noun
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
"Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
noun
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
noun
Fixed limit.
noun
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
"the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country"
noun
The space or thing defined by limits.
noun
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
noun
A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
noun
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
noun
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
noun
(as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
adjective
Being a fixed limit game.
verb
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
"I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight."
verb
To have a limit in a particular set.
"The sequence limits on the point a."
verb
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
"a limiting friar"