simple past tense and past participle of term-limit

(transitive, informal) To remove (someone) from an elected position by limiting the number of terms they can serve.

plural of Roche limit

(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.

plural of upper limit

plural of lower limit

(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.