SPEED LIMIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speed limit mean? 

• SPEED LIMIT (noun)
  The noun SPEED LIMIT has 1 sense:

1. regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road

  Familiarity information: SPEED LIMIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPEED LIMIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regulation establishing the top speed permitted on a given road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("speed limit" is a kind of...):

ordinance; regulation (an authoritative rule)

 Context examples 

"There is a speed limit in the study that shows that an ice shelf can't collapse ridiculously fast," said co-author Alison Banwell, a glaciology researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)