Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Bolyai geometry, a circle with infinitely great radius.
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Examples
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Scenes are divided by slender Gothic columns, and other architectural features are tessellated floors and a sketchy sort of brick-work that appears wherever a limit-line is needed.
The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905
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In fact, the limit-line of the two branches is not always easy to trace, so often are they grafted together; they inspire each other, intertwine, and at last are almost one.
The Cathedral 1877
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