What is "upper limits"

Usage examples of "upper limits".

Not very restrictive upper limits on their abundance have been set by the failure so far to find short gamma ray pulses, a component of the Hawking radiation.

This is why we may be approaching the upper limits of the adaptive range.

Below that, but only by a few hundred meters, lay the upper limits of the atmosphere, beyond the restraining barrier.

Over the many millennia since their sudden creation these tall ramparts have been slowly worn down both by erosion and our world's many small ground-quakes so that the earth has slumped back to refill the wide ditches where the column ends lie, until all that is visible is a succession of gentle waves in the land's surface, like a series of small, splayed valleys from whose upper limits the unburied lengths of the columns appear like the pale exposed bones of this little planet-moon.

At one hundred fifty years of age, McCoy was reaching the upper limits of recorded human life spans, aided by internal skeletal actuators, synthetic organs, and his latest implant—.

And though the tuning procedures were improving each year as the technicians zeroed in on the theoretical upper limits of warp efficiency, Scott was certain that for at least the next ten years any ship attempting a tandem test run too close to a star would run the risk of falling into either an Einsteinian wormhole or a Danylkiw Singularity.

A new deceleration, slight at first but slowly increasing, told him that he was within the upper limits of the atmosphere.

Sometimes it was a deliberate test to find the upper limits of flight, other times an urgent mission that he had to use his piloting skills to carry out.

She shaded her eyes as she surveyed the upper limits of the smooth stone surfaces.

Suddenly a high-pitched shriek that scraped the upper limits of audibility echoed from behind the opaque barrier.

We'll circle around it, entering its atmosphere on the daylight side, and shoot into the upper limits of its atmosphere.