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Liminality
Liminality, or liminal theory, is the condition of being in a transitional state, 'betwixt and between' social positions, drawn from van Gennep's rites of passage and developed by Victor Turner.
Liming Dai
Liming Dai is a materials scientist and Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney known for carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts, opened by his 2009 Science paper on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes beating platinum.
Liming Zhang
Liming Zhang (张立明) is an organic chemist known for his work in homogeneous gold catalysis, including Au(I)/Au(III) redox catalysis, and a professor at UC Santa Barbara.
Limison D. Sangma
Limison D. Sangma is an Indian politician of the National People's Party and Deputy Speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, a three-time MLA who earlier served as a minister.
Limit (category theory)
In category theory, a limit of a diagram is a universal cone that every other cone factors through uniquely, generalizing products, equalizers, pullbacks, and terminal objects; it was named by Daniel Kan in 1958.
Limit (mathematics)
In mathematics, a limit is the value a function or sequence approaches as its input approaches some value, the foundational concept underlying continuity, derivatives, integrals, and convergence.
Limit (리미트) (2022 film)
Limit (리미트) is a 2022 South Korean crime thriller directed by Lee Seung-jun, starring Lee Jung-hyun, Moon Jung-hee, and Jin Seo-yeon; a policewoman posing as a kidnapped child's mother is targeted when her own son is seized. Released August 31, 2022; 87 minutes; adapted from a Hisashi Nozawa novel.
Limit analysis
Limit analysis is a plasticity method that computes bounds on the collapse load of structures and soil masses using lower-bound and upper-bound theorems, without incremental load stepping.
Limit cycle
A limit cycle is an isolated closed trajectory in the phase space of a differential equation, a periodic solution that nearby trajectories spiral toward or away from.
Limit cycle walking
Limit cycle walking is a bipedal robot locomotion paradigm in which a nominally periodic stepping gait is stable as a whole, not at every instant.
Limit equilibrium method
The limit equilibrium method is a geotechnical analysis technique that computes a factor of safety for a potential slope failure along an assumed slip surface.
Limit of a function
The limit of a function is the value its output approaches as its input approaches a given point, and it underlies continuity, derivatives, and integrals in calculus.
Limit of a sequence
The limit of a sequence is the number its terms approach and stay near; a sequence with such a number is called convergent, one without, divergent.
Limit ordinal
A limit ordinal is a nonzero ordinal number that has no immediate predecessor, so it is not the successor of any ordinal; the first example is ω, the smallest infinite ordinal.
Limit point
A limit point, also called an accumulation point or cluster point, of a set is a point every neighborhood of which contains a point of the set other than itself.
Limit state design
Limit state design is a structural engineering method that verifies safety and serviceability by checking defined limit states with partial safety factors on loads and material strengths.
Limit superior and limit inferior
The limit superior (limsup) and limit inferior (liminf) of a real sequence are its eventual upper and lower bounds, obtained from the suprema and infima of its tails.
Limitation of liability clause
A limitation of liability clause is a contract term capping a party's damages, typically through a monetary cap or exclusion of certain damages, standard in software agreements.
Limite
Limite (1931) is the only completed film of Brazilian director Mário Peixoto, a 120-minute silent avant-garde feature about three people adrift at sea, shot by Edgar Brasil, never commercially released, and restored in 1977 and 2010.
Limited atonement
Limited atonement, also called definite atonement or particular redemption, is the Reformed doctrine that Christ died to secure salvation for the elect alone, a point of TULIP.
Limited company
A limited company is a corporation whose members' liability for its debts is capped, either at unpaid share capital or at a fixed sum on winding up.
Limited feedback beamforming
Limited feedback beamforming is a wireless technique where a receiver selects the best beamforming vector from a shared codebook and returns its index, a few bits, to the transmitter.
Limited government
Limited government: government whose powers are legally constrained by constitution, enumerated powers, separation of powers, and rights; distinct from small government; linked to Locke, Montesquieu, Federalist No. 78, and US federalism.
Limited information maximum likelihood
Limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) is a single-equation instrumental-variable estimator for a structural equation in a simultaneous-equations system, introduced by Anderson and Rubin in 1949.
Limited liability
Limited liability is a business law concept protecting shareholders from a company's debts up to the amount they invested, contrasting with the unlimited liability of sole traders.
Limited liability company
Limited liability company (LLC): a U.S. state-law business entity giving members limited liability with partnership-style pass-through taxation, first created by Wyoming's 1977 statute; FinCEN BOI reporting for domestic LLCs was permanently removed in 2026.
Limited liability partnership
A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a hybrid business form giving partners a liability shield with partnership taxation; used by law, accounting, and medical firms; governed by acts such as the UK LLP Act 2000 and India's LLP Act 2008, with full-shield and partial-shield state variants in the US.
Limited overs cricket
Limited overs cricket, also called one-day cricket, is single-innings cricket with a set overs limit per side, finished in a day. Covers ODIs (50 overs), T20, The Hundred, List A status, Powerplay rules, and the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern rain method.
Limited partnership
Limited partnership (LP, société en commandite): a partnership with general partners who manage and bear unlimited liability and limited partners liable only up to their capital contribution; standard vehicle for private equity and venture funds, governed in the UK by the 1907 Act.
Limited Run Games
Limited Run Games (LRG), founded 2015 by Josh Fairhurst and Douglas Bogart in North Carolina, is a boutique publisher of limited physical video game editions under the motto Forever Physical; Embracer-owned since 2022, known for the Carbon Engine, collector's editions, and shipping controversies.