NOUN
- the smallest possible quantity
- the limit on the lower (or southernmost) side of something
How To Use lower limit In A Sentence
- The lower limits of normal for serum uric acid are arbitrarily defined and may vary from one lab to another.
- Hasinger and his colleagues have combined XMM and Infrared Space Observatory measurements of the Lockman Hole, putting a lower limit— 15percent—on the AGN contribution to the infrared background.
- A lower limit would encourage the entry of independents and promote competition.
- The lower limits of sensitivity for glucagon and atrial natriuretic peptide assay were 3.7 pmol/l and 1.1 pmol/l, respectively.
- You wouldn't expect this to be a bell-shaped distribution, because there is a lower limit to what people can guess.
- In programming language, the lower limit of an array dimension.
- Yet these observations provide the barest amount of information: just the size and ellipticity of the planet's orbit and a lower limit on its mass.
- In a review article, he concluded that physical factors were most important to determine the upper and lower limits of intertidal communities, but biological factors predominated in life between the tidemarks.
- This difference sets the lower limit on the energy required to produce an alternative fuel.
- The principle is applied to five common distributions of repair time and is used to derive the lower limits of the upper-sided performance reliability.