(theology) A doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is limited in scope to those who are predestined unto salvation, which is conferred only to believers.

The rule of netiquette stating that the text of a Usenet signature, or sig, should be less than 80 columns wide and no longer than four lines.

(finance, banking) The maximum amount of credit that a financial institution or other lender will extend to a debtor for a particular line of credit.

(algebra) A subset of the Cartesian product of all the members of an inverse system, such that a member M of the subset is a sort of “cross section” of the inverse system (as fiber bundle) induced by the morphisms of it. (If i<j in the indexing poset then f_ij:A_j→A_i in the inverse system and if a_i∈A_i, a_j∈A_j are components of M then f_ij(a_j)=a_i).

(biology) The number of times that a normal cell population will divide before it stops, presumably because the telomeres shorten to a critical length.

(set theory) An ordinal number which is neither zero nor a successor of an ordinal.

plural of limited company

A company in which the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

plural of limit situation

Any of certain situations in which a human being is said to have differing experiences from those arising from ordinary situations.