end |
a point or area at or adjacent to an extremity, often serving as a boundary or limit. [2/18 definitions] |
end line |
either of two lines, one at each end of a basketball court, football field, or the like, that marks the limit of the playing area. |
entail |
to limit (an inheritance, esp. of land) to certain heirs. [1/5 definitions] |
extent |
the limit of something's reach. [1/3 definitions] |
extreme |
at the most distant point or outer limit of. [2/7 definitions] |
family planning |
a program designed to limit the size of a household by properly spacing or preventing the birth of children. |
featherbed |
to hire or require the hiring of more employees than are needed or limit the production of each, or to be hired as a result of such an arrangement. |
fed up |
at or beyond the limit of one's patience or tolerance. |
focalize |
in medicine, to limit or be limited to a specific area, as an infection; localize. |
frost line |
the limit past which frost does not penetrate the soil. |
hedge |
to protect (risks) against failure by acting ahead of time to compensate for or limit possible loss. [1/5 definitions] |
height |
the extreme limit; climax. [1/5 definitions] |
high seas |
the area of a sea or ocean outside the territorial limit of any country. |
immeasurable |
impossible to measure; without limit. |
infinite |
that which has no measure or limit. [1/3 definitions] |
infinity |
in mathematics, the assumed limit of a limitless sequence or series. [1/5 definitions] |
lid |
a restraint or upper limit. [1/6 definitions] |
limitable |
combined form of limit. |
limiting |
serving to restrict or limit. [1/2 definitions] |
line1 |
a boundary or limit; point at which something ends or must stop. [1/21 definitions] |
magnetopause |
the outer limit of the area in which a planet's magnetic field is stronger than the interplanetary field. |