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Definition of "lim" []

  • Mathematics limit (abbreviation)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "lim" in a sentence
  • "I think there may be some confusion in translating the Spanish word limón, which means lime in Spanish, into the English word lemon."
  • "He said from the begin­ning he believed in term lim­its (the whole Class of ‘94 did, remem­ber?) and wouldn’t run for more than three."
  • "But Bourbon, who might have expected every thing to which an ambitious mind can afpire, from the doating fondnefs of a woman who governed her fon and the kingdom, incapable of imitating Louifa in her fudden tranfition from hate to love, or of meanly counterfeit - ing apafiion for one who had fo long purfued 'lim'with unprovoked malice, rejected the match with difdain, and turned the propofal into ridicule."