** At 146 mph ( 235 km / h ) US model top speed, Porsche boldly claims the 928S to be " the fastest street legal production car sold in the US ".

** Top speed ( US model ) is now in excess of 250 km / h ( 155 mph ).

** Virtualized interrupt to speed up virtual 8086 mode.

** Speed breaking – boards are held loosely by one edge, putting special focus on the speed required to perform the break

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

** Two separate register files, which could be quickly switched, to speed up response to interrupts

** Bonnie Blair, American speed skater

** Ye Qiaobo, Chinese speed skater

** Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater

** Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK.

** The first speed limit is introduced in Britain: in town and in the country.

** Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater

** Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91. 37 mph.

** Akira Kuroiwa, Japanese speed skater

** Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater

** Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater

** Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, German speed skater

** Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater

** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622. 287 mph ( 1 001. 452 863 km / h ) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

** Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater

** Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker ( b. 1921 )

** Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater

** Results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.

** Sergey Khlebnikov, Soviet speed skater ( d. 1999 )

** Some kinds of helicity are conserved in dissipationless limit: hydrodynamical helicity, magnetic helicity, cross-helicity.

** The set of infinite strings is the inverse limit of the set of finite strings, and is thus endowed with the limit topology.

** One-sided limit

** Limit superior and limit inferior

** Direct limit and Inverse limit

** Chandrasekhar limit

** Greisen – Zatsepin – Kuzmin limit

** Speed limit

** The high-frequency limit of the hearing range

** A limit order is a type of order to buy a security at no more ( or sell at no less ) than a specific price on an exchange.

** Engine piston rings changed to limit oil consumption and pistons changed to strengthen skirt area.

** A Line reactor is used to limit starting current of motors and to protect variable frequency drives

** The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.

** See more fully the discussion in Dennis J. Baker, The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority ( Ashgate, 2011 < http :// www. ashgate. com / isbn / 9781409427650 >) where Professor Baker argues ( in chapter 5 ) that there is a limit to consensual harm doing — but that the threshold of harm has to be reasonably high.

** Lower limit: 70-80 modal ( bass ), 30-40 creaky

** Upper limit: 1170 ( soprano )

** Railroad adze-A carpenter's adze which had its bit extended in an effort to limit the breaking of handles when shaping railroad ties ( railway sleepers ).

** Lyapunov's central limit theorem

** serum creatinine ≥ 2 times the upper limit of normal for age or 2-fold increase in baseline creatinine in patients with chronic kidney disease

** alanine aminotransferase ( ALT ) ≥ 2 times the upper limit of normal

** A lossless " PCM macroblock " representation mode in which video data samples are represented directly, allowing perfect representation of specific regions and allowing a strict limit to be placed on the quantity of coded data for each macroblock.