[
  {
    "word": "limit",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8l\u026amt/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8l\u026amt/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8l\u026am\u026at/",
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        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "There are several existing limits to executive power."
          },
          {
            "definition": "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).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.",
            "synonyms": [
              "inverse limit",
              "projective limit"
            ],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Fixed limit.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country"
          },
          {
            "definition": "The space or thing defined by limits.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(as \"the limit\") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "bound",
          "boundary",
          "limitation",
          "restriction",
          "inverse limit",
          "projective limit"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Being a fixed limit game.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limit"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "limit",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8l\u026amt/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8l\u026amt/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8l\u026am\u026at/",
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        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To have a limit in a particular set.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The sequence limits on the point a."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a limiting friar"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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    "sourceUrls": [
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  }
]