The phrase "as an upper limit" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically refers to the maximum or highest amount or number that is allowed or considered acceptable in a certain context. Example sentence: The company has set a budget of $10,000 for the project, but that should only be seen as an upper limit and we should try to stay under that amount if possible.
Thus, the data obtained for the limited system could be considered as an upper limit for ω.
The Bundesbank, for example, regards 3% very much as an upper limit.
That is more than double the $250 million that it had given as an upper limit in its initial prospectus.
Should warming hit the 2C threshold – a target that's come to be seen somewhat arbitrarily as an upper limit, but that many scientists now regard as unachievable – most reefs will likely be devastated by coral bleaching, according to the IPCC.
With μ = 2 (as an upper limit) and ρ = 1.4 grams per cubic cm (the mean density of the Sun), the temperature at which the radiation pressure would equal the gas pressure can be calculated.
The distinction between a polypeptide and a protein is imprecise and largely academic; some authorities have adopted, as an upper limit on the molecular weight of a polypeptide, 10,000 (that of a peptide composed of about 100 amino acids).
An approximate cutoff point of 500 grams (Kay's threshold, after the primatologist Richard Kay, who first drew attention to it) has been proposed as an upper limit for species subsisting mainly on insects and a lower limit for those relying on leaves.
The frontier may serve as an upper limit on the increase in an input vector.
As a result, numeral systems with five as an upper limit are rare in Pama-Nyungan languages.
In June, First Minister Carwyn Jones said Welsh government planning guidelines on the number of windfarms should in future be regarded as an upper limit.
The polarization signal is twice as big as an upper limit Planck researchers set indirectly by measuring temperature variations in the CMB.
