lower limits
Floors, not ceilings
Lower limits are the minimum values or boundaries below which something cannot or should not go.
In mathematics, a lower limit defines the smallest value in a range or the bottom bound of an integral.
More broadly, the phrase describes floors or minimums: The contract sets lower limits on acceptable quality.
Speed has upper limits; safety margins have lower ones.
- minimumSmallest possible quantity
- bare minimumSmallest acceptable quantity
- lowermostAt the absolute bottom
- floorIndoor walking surface
- baselineStandard for comparison
hard floor · bottom line · levels · threshold · red line · boundary · cutoff · point of no return · bottom · price floor · glass ceiling · de minimis · constraint · critical point · breaking point · margin · safety net · substructure