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Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters
Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters is the English title Qian Zhongshu gave to Guanzhui bian, his four-volume 1979 collection of essays on Chinese classics.
Limited voting
Limited voting (LV), the limited vote: a semi-proportional electoral system for multi-member districts where voters cast fewer votes than seats (typically M−1), winners by plurality; includes SNTV as its one-vote case, used in Britain and as a US Voting Rights Act remedy.
Limited-memory BFGS
Limited-memory BFGS, or L-BFGS, is a quasi-Newton optimization algorithm introduced by Jorge Nocedal in 1980 that minimizes large differentiable functions without storing the full inverse Hessian.
Limited-slip differential
A limited-slip differential (LSD), also called posi-traction, is a car differential that sends more torque to the wheel with better traction, helping vehicles escape mud, ice, and snow.
Limiter (plasma physics)
In magnetic-confinement fusion, a limiter is a material surface inside a tokamak or stellarator that defines the plasma edge and protects the wall, largely replaced by divertors.
Limiting antigen-avidity enzyme immunoassay
The limiting antigen-avidity enzyme immunoassay (LAg-Avidity EIA) is a laboratory serological assay that measures HIV-1 antibody avidity to classify infections as recent or long-standing, estimating HIV incidence in population surveys.
Limiting oxygen index
The limiting oxygen index (LOI) is the minimum percentage of oxygen in an oxygen–nitrogen mixture that sustains a material's burning, introduced by Fenimore and Martin in 1966.
Limiting reagent
The limiting reagent, also called the limiting reactant, is the reactant in a chemical reaction that is completely consumed first and therefore determines how much product can form.
Limitless (film)
Limitless is a 2011 American science-fiction thriller directed by Neil Burger, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, loosely based on Alan Glynn's novel The Dark Fields.
Limitless (TV series)
Limitless is a 2015-2016 CBS crime drama, a sequel to the 2011 Bradley Cooper film, starring Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, an NZT-enhanced FBI consultant; cancelled after one season.
Limits of agreement
Limits of agreement are the range, mean difference plus or minus 1.96 standard deviations, within which 95% of differences between two measurement methods are expected to lie.
LIMK1
LIMK1 (LIM domain kinase 1, GeneID 3984) is a human 7q11.23 gene encoding a serine/threonine kinase that phosphorylates cofilin at Ser 3 to regulate actin dynamics; deleted in Williams syndrome, overexpressed in cancers.
Limmie Pulliam
Limmie Pulliam (Limmie Demetrus Pulliam), American dramatic tenor from Kennett, Missouri; Oberlin-trained, returned after a 12-year hiatus to become the Met's first Black Radamès in Aida (2022), known for Otello, Calaf, and Canio; died May 19, 2026.
Limmy
Limmy (Brian Limond, born 1974, Glasgow) is a Scottish comedian and streamer whose Limmy.com and Limmy's World of Glasgow podcast led to Limmy's Show on BBC Two Scotland (2009–2013, two Scottish BAFTAs), books, Limmy's Homemade Show, and a Twitch career.
Limmy's Show
Limmy's Show! is a Scottish surreal sketch comedy (2009–2013) written, directed, and performed by Brian Limond for BBC Two Scotland, produced by The Comedy Unit, with characters Jacqueline McCafferty, Dee Dee, and Falconhoof, and a 2011 BAFTA Scotland win.
Limnephilidae
Limnephilidae (northern casemaker caddisflies, Kolenati 1848) is the largest Plenitentoria caddisfly family, about 900 species; larvae build portable cases of sand and plant material in northern freshwaters.
Limni
Limni (Greek "lake") names several Mediterranean places: a town on Euboea at ancient Elymnion, a major former copper mine in Cyprus, the Neolithic Kitrini Limni basin in Kozani, and the Turkish name for Lemnos.
Limnic eruption
Limnic eruption: the sudden release of dissolved CO2 from a stratified lake, known from Lake Monoun (1984, 37 deaths) and Lake Nyos (1986, ~1,700 deaths) in Cameroon; mitigated by degassing pipes.
Limnodromus
Limnodromus, the dowitchers, is a genus of three long-billed Scolopacidae shorebirds: Short-billed, Long-billed, and Asian Dowitcher; established by Wied-Neuwied in 1833, with the two Nearctic species split only in 1950.
Limnodynastes
Limnodynastes (marsh frogs, Australian swamp frogs) is a genus of 13 Australian and southern New Guinea frog species in Limnodynastidae, including the banjo frogs, striped and spotted marsh frogs, divided into four molecular species groups.
Limnologica
Limnologica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the ecology and management of inland waters, published by Elsevier and closely associated with the German Society for Limnology.
Limnological journals
Limnological journals are scholarly periodicals that publish research on inland waters such as lakes, rivers, and wetlands, with Limnology and Oceanography the flagship since 1956.
Limnology
Limnology, also called freshwater science, is the study of inland waters, including lakes, rivers, wetlands, and groundwater, as ecological systems linked to their drainage basins.
Limnology and Oceanography
Limnology and Oceanography is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, covering the study of inland waters and the sea.
Limnonectes
Limnonectes (fanged frogs, 大头蛙属), genus of 106 Asian dicroglossid frog species from China to New Guinea; males have jaw fangs, some a head caruncle, and L. larvaepartus gives birth to tadpoles.
Limnoperna fortunei
Limnoperna fortunei, the golden mussel, is a freshwater mytilid bivalve native to southern China, invasive in Asia and South America since 1991, fouling pipelines, power plants, and water infrastructure with dense byssal colonies.
Limoges
Limoges, prefecture of Haute-Vienne in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, historical capital of Limousin; city of porcelain and medieval enamels, kaolin discovery 1768, UNESCO Creative City 2017, about 130,000 inhabitants.
Limoges enamel
Limoges enamel is enamel on metal, mostly gilded copper, made in Limoges, France, from the late twelfth century; its champlevé and painted plaques spread across Europe.
Limoncello
Limoncello: Italian lemon liqueur from Campania (Sorrento, Amalfi, Capri), made by steeping lemon peel in alcohol and sugar syrup; about 30% sugar and alcohol, trademarked commercially in 1988, served frozen as a digestif.
Limonene
Limonene, also known as D-limonene or dipentene for the racemate, is a cyclic terpene hydrocarbon, C10H16, comprising most citrus peel oils and valued as a flavoring, fragrance, and solvent.