caimitillo | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf, satinleaf |
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caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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imitation | (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
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(noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
(noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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(noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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(noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
(noun) as far as something can go | - |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
(noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
(noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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(noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
(noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
limited | (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
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limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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limiting | (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
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limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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(noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
(noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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(noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
proximity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: propinquity |
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(noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of proximity |
(noun) the region close around a person or thing | - |
pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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unanimity | (noun) everyone being of one mind | - |
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