The boundary of a property or territory can be marked with fences, walls or other structures.
The first necessary step to discover the meaning of the term that concerns us now is to establish its etymological origin. Thus, we can determine that this is found in Latin, and more precisely in the word limes , genitive of limitis , which can be translated as “edge or border.”
A boundary is a division , whether physical or symbolic, that marks a separation between two territories or nations. For example: “The authorities are furious because they claim that the neighboring country has violated the territorial limit” , “Do you see those trees? They are the limit of our property, so you can't play ball beyond them,” “The equator is an imaginary line that divides the planet in half.”
Limit as a border or extreme
Territorial borders , therefore, are limits that mark the division of two regions. Typically, the notion of border refers to something concrete (a wall, a fence, etc.), while the limit can be a geographical accident or something more symbolic.
Limit is also the extreme that can be reached from the spiritual or the physical, or the one that reaches a certain time : “I have experienced an extreme situation due to police inaction,” “The limit for submitting work is the next Wednesday” , “I can't keep walking, I have reached the limit of my strength” .
A limit can be a temporary period.
A complicated situation or restriction
In the same way, we cannot ignore an expression that is widely used colloquially. It's about "on the edge." What it wants to express with it is that, for example, a person is in a very complicated situation that is about to lead to a real tragedy. Thus, a sentence that can exemplify this meaning is the following: “Almudena is at the limit of his strength, he can no longer withstand so much pressure.”
A limit, on the other hand, can be a restriction or a limitation . We can talk about a legal, social or other type of limit. For psychology , a limit is a repression that is not always negative ( “We must set limits for this child” ).
The notion of limit in cinema
In addition to all the above, we have to emphasize that in cinema the term studied has been used on many occasions to give titles to productions of various kinds. Thus, for example, we find the film “On the Limit” that Martin Scorsese presented in 1999.
Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette are the protagonists of this work in which it tells how an employee of the emergency ambulance services is very stressed by his job and begins to suffer hallucinations in which all the people he does not appear to appear to him. He was able to save his life.
Nor should we forget about another film that shares the same title as the previous one, but which came to the big screen in 2010 by filmmaker Martin Campbell. The plot revolves around the murder of the daughter of a police officer, played by Mel Gibson.
The concept in mathematics
In the field of mathematics , finally, a limit is a fixed magnitude to which the terms that make up an infinite sequence of magnitudes progressively approach.
In this way, taking into account what has been said, we can speak of the limit of a function, the limit of a sequence, etc.