NOUN
- the largest possible quantity
- the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something
How To Use upper limit In A Sentence
- Now astrophysicists have put a best - guess upper limit on the mass of the neutrino.
- A good rule of thumb is to think of 30k as around the upper limit for a page.
- Now the company begins a donation matching program and no upper limit, which means, if an employee donates $100, then Microsoft will donate another $100.
- The compatibility and hardware resource requirement were discussed, and the theoretical upper limit of the efficiency was given.
- The mutation rate is bound to place an upper limit on the rate at which evolution can proceed.
- The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine. The Land of Little Rain
- On the other hand, for unfocused conditions assuming a beam area of 1 cm2 which is maybe an upper limit for the lasers used, 0.1 cm2 might be slightly better - personal communication E Rabett the fraction of NO2* will be about 0.003 and saturation will not be an issue. Rabett Run
- Its medial surface forms part of the lateral wall of the nasal cavity; at its upper part is a rough, uneven area, which articulates with the ethmoid, closing in the anterior ethmoidal cells; below this is an oblique ridge, the ethmoidal crest, the posterior end of which articulates with the middle nasal concha, while the anterior part is termed the agger nasi; the crest forms the upper limit of the atrium of the middle meatus. II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)
- Twenty-five percent was thus the upper limit beyond which oxygen could not rise. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- At the extreme south end, between Kilchattan and Garroch Head, these conglomerates and sandstones are overlaid by a thick cornstone or dolomitic limestone marking the upper limit of the formation, which is surmounted by the cement-stones and contemporaneous lavas of Lower Carboniferous age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"