Decrease and Limit

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• The greatest possible degree of something.
  • usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
  • synonyms: bound, boundary
• Final or latest limiting point.
  • synonyms: terminus ad quem, terminal point
• As far as something can go.
• The boundary of a specific area.
  • synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line
• The mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity.
  • synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation
• The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed.
  • usage: "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"
  • synonyms: limitation

verb

• Place limits on (extent or access. )
  • usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
  • synonyms: restrict, restrain, trammel, bound, confine, throttle
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: circumscribe, confine
• Decide upon or fix definitely.
  • usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • synonyms: specify, set, determine, define, fix

• (v.t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
• (v.t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
• (v.i.) To beg or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
• (v.t.) The space or thing defined by limits.
• (v.t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• (v.t.) To apply a limit to or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
• (v.t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
• (v.t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains or confines; the bound, border or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.

LIMIT is the maximum daily allowable amount a futures price may advance or decline in any one day's trading session. Limits are also placed on the number of posi-tions a participant may hold in the market.