Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

limit point

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English

Syllables: lim-it -point
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Given a subset S of a given topological space T, any point p whose every neighborhood contains some point, distinct from p, which belongs to S.

Example Sentences

"is an example of a function having infinitely many essential singularities with a limit point at z=0. It is an easy matter to give examples of "elementary" functions whose singularities have a countable number of limit points."
"If z_0 is a limit point of S, then every ϵ-neighborhood of z_0 must contain infinitely many points of S."
"As the next example shows, the set of zeros may well have a limit point not belonging to the domain."

Inflected Forms

limit points (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

limit

Synonyms

accumulation point cluster point limit point of accumulation

Questions

What does limit point mean?: Given a subset S of a given topological space T, any point p whose every neighborhood contains some point, distinct from p, which belongs to S.

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