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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
limitation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
statute of limitations
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
▪ Anyone studying an inventory must be aware of their limitations.
▪ The Liberals were henceforth aware of their limitations, and even began to doubt their own cause.
▪ Being aware of their limitations of ability and attention will prevent the parents' feeling irritated.
▪ It is important for the patient to be aware of the limitations likely to be caused by his spasticity.
▪ Though Catherine assiduously cultivated an image of absolute authority. she was well aware of the limitations on her own power.
▪ In order to be safe outside, the patient must be aware of his limitations.
▪ Knowing that Miss Danziger was aware of her limitations made Fru Møller nervous.
certain
▪ Such interdependency demands certain limitations in national sovereignty.
▪ Limitations on rights Articles 19 and 20 allow certain limitations to be placed on the right of free speech.
▪ There are certain limitations and disadvantages with this method, however.
▪ But John Travolta is a great movie star, and thus not subject to certain mortal limitations.
▪ Both materials offer distinct advantages and have certain limitations.
▪ All in all, SongWright 5.1 is a useful program within certain limitations.
important
▪ The social acceptability of a disability may, therefore, be more important than the limitations it may give rise to.
▪ A further important human limitation is that the intellect works discursively.
▪ This is important for limitation purposes so that time runs from the sale of the goods.
▪ Limitations of thrombolysis Currently available thrombolytic agents have several important limitations.
▪ The most important limitation of presently available systems is the lack of a reliable deglutitive signal.
▪ The Qur'an does recognise a right to private property but it is subject to important limitation, as indicated in the next extract.
▪ But there were also important limitations.
inherent
▪ Most data are derived from cross-sectional studies, with their inherent methodological limitations.
▪ The camera lens, of course, has its own inherent limitations.
▪ We recognise the inherent limitations of our study.
▪ Nevertheless, while many administrative shortcomings have been identified, the scrutiny technique does have inherent limitations.
obvious
▪ But all the work so far has one obvious limitation.
▪ The most obvious limitation on migration was geographical.
▪ Nevertheless, there are obvious limitations to a system of selective assessment.
▪ Such models, being necessarily simple, have obvious limitations.
particular
▪ This places particular limitations on the time-tabling.
▪ On this basis, the hypothesis would be that religious beliefs tend to cluster around particular compounds of limitation.
▪ How much does this particular limitation matter?
▪ It is probably very rare for consciousness to scan every component of a particular compound of limitation.
physical
▪ In situations where the second person was the farmer's wife there could be physical limitations to the amount of assistance given.
▪ He becomes fixated on his own physical limitations and begins worshipping the male members of others.
▪ The physical limitations of the processor and memory in the existing configuration are reflected quantitatively in the performance of the system.
▪ You may have physical limitations yourself which would make lifting and other care of a disabled person difficult or impossible.
serious
▪ The advantages of the concept are obvious but more apparent than real; there are serious limitations.
▪ And for some schools, this may be an interesting option, though if carried to extremes, it has serious limitations.
▪ Arguing from studies of first language development has serious limitations.
▪ There have been serious methodological limitations to much of the research implicating personality factors in anorexia nervosa.
▪ Invivo BrdUrd based studies, however, have serious practical limitations.
severe
▪ Rufus's masterful power had, in practice, very severe limitations: but he did not forget an injury.
▪ In fact, they wanted an even more severe limitation on politicians, but Willie Brown had the only guillotine.
▪ The magnitude of the early railway works was enhanced by the severe limitation the engineers placed upon themselves as regards gradients.
▪ This vision has severe limitations, especially in its resistance to formal innovation and cultural weirdness.
▪ Dating a skull on the morphology has also severe limitations.
▪ With these severe limitations agreed to, the march was held.
▪ If cloze only measures comprehension at the phrase or sentence level, it has severe limitations.
▪ But cast iron had severe limitations.
■ NOUN
damage
▪ In truth Gene probably believes that the forces of darkness are gathering, but he also believes in damage limitation.
▪ It was to be an ugly demonstration; damage limitation was not on the agenda.
▪ Its policy is damage limitation, not prevention.
▪ Alec Stewart's 102-ball 55 never smacked of more than damage limitation.
▪ But damage limitation is not perhaps the best way to manage an election campaign when you are in opposition.
▪ Franks was busily engaged in a damage limitation exercise in Washington.
▪ There was only one unspoken agenda: damage assessment. Damage limitation, if any was possible, would come later.
▪ He started on a kind of-well - what Mum and I used to call one of his damage limitation exercises.
period
▪ There is no statutory limitation period for criminal proceedings such as those in the instant case.
▪ The rationale of the distinction between summary and other proceedings probably lies in the respective limitation periods.
▪ Thus an expert's decision obtained after the limitation period will not be enforceable by court action: see Chapter 12.
▪ The limitation period is for six years from the date on which the dwelling was completed.
▪ The limitation period varies from three to ten years depending on the country.
▪ Where the decision has been obtained by fraud the limitation period may be extended by s32 of the Limitation Act 1980.
▪ The original owner can always recover subject to a six-year limitation period.
■ VERB
accept
▪ May we take pride in our achievements and accept our limitations.
▪ One teacher refused to accept the limitations I put on myself.
▪ You were supposed to be brilliant without effort, or to accept your limitations and get a fourth-class degree.
▪ They came to accept many of their limitations, ignorance, and mistakes.
▪ By accepting such a limitation in application domain it is possible to achieve much more detailed analysis of the text.
▪ You need to know how consistently and how accurately you can land; be honest with yourself and accept your limitations.
▪ But by taking Chapman on board he accepted the limitation of his own authority.
impose
▪ Countries differ however in the extent to which they wish to impose limitations.
▪ It will not impose time limitation.
▪ Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations, both on programmers and hardware.
▪ If a neural network system is good at recall functions only, then it is necessary to impose constraints and limitations.
▪ A different set of rules then operate to impose limitations on the expression of aggro.
▪ While the courts have jealously protected an individual's right to notice, they have imposed limitations upon it.
▪ There is good evidence that these imperfections are imposed by performance limitations.
▪ Normally, such an agreement will impose strict limitations and involve a fee or royalty payable to the artist.
overcome
▪ The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms.
▪ Three orientations by size of the collectivity may be sufficient to overcome this limitation.
▪ The greenfly, another live-bearer, has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation.
▪ The expectation is that special learners will adapt to overcome their limitations to the extent possible.
▪ We propose to overcome these limitations through the use of a new methodology for the assessment of connectionist networks.
▪ By grouping together, individuals overcome limitations imposed by both the physical environment and also their own biological limitations.
place
▪ Although possibly more relevant in connection with reinstatement the tenant should attempt to place some limitation on the persons who could void the policy.
▪ In addition, the Committee has discussed placing limitations on donations to independent campaigns.
▪ This suggests that Elizabeth does have some freedom to shape her life, although society will always place limitations on that freedom.
▪ This places particular limitations on the time-tabling.
▪ If international law can place no limitation on Parliament's powers, can time do so?
recognize
▪ Whereas practitioners of the occult would explain everything by magic, modern science has recognized the limitations of its knowledge.
▪ Dulles implicitly recognized the limitations on brinksmanship.
▪ He recognized his limitations, but he made little attempt to develop another technique.
▪ We need to recognize the limitations of such an approach, for every culture is unique.
▪ However, it is necessary to recognize these limitations of enumeration so that they can be overcome in practice.
▪ The falsificationist, by contrast, recognizes the limitation of induction and the subservience of observation to theory.
▪ For recognizing the restraints and limitations of the old policies is not at all the same as removing them.
transcend
▪ Here I thought Tan at his best in transcending any hint of limitation in the instrument's expressive range.
▪ But the insects have, in another way, transcended even the limitation of scale.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alec Stewart's 102-ball 55 never smacked of more than damage limitation.
▪ Nevertheless, the limitations of writing a script to accompany images on the screen become clear on the printed page.
▪ One of the limitations of books of purely social commentary is that they are long on analysis and short on action.
▪ Promotion of the role of the Commissioner, emphasising both her capabilities and her limitations should help to alleviate this problem.
▪ The limitations of what is available for you locally can also be part of this pain.
▪ There are ways of turning the restrictions and limitations that caring involves into assets.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limitation

Limitation \Lim`i*ta"tion\ (-t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. limitatio: cf. F. limitation. See Limit, v. t.]

  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.

    They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible modes of existence in the universe.
    --J. S. Mill.

  2. That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.

    The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable.
    --Hooker.

  3. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
    --Chaucer. Latimer.

  4. A limited time within or during which something is to be done.

    You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes Endue you with the people's voice.
    --Shak.

  5. (Law)

    1. A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.

    2. A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.

    3. A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
      --Wharton. Bouvier.

      To know one's own limitations, to know the reach and limits of one's abilities.
      --A. R. Wallace.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
limitation

late 14c., from Old French limitacion and directly from Latin limitationem (nominative limitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of limitare (see limit (v.)). Phrase statute of limitations attested by 1768.

Wiktionary
limitation

n. 1 The act of limiting or the state of being limited. 2 A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance. 3 An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value. 4 A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

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WordNet
limitation

  1. n. a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" [syn: restriction]

  2. the quality of being limited or restricted; "it is a good plan but it has serious limitations"

  3. the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight" [syn: limit]

  4. (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought; "statute of limitations"

  5. an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: restriction]

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Wikipedia
Limitation

Limitation may refer to:

  • A disclaimer for research done in an experiment or study
  • A Statute of limitations
  • Limitations (novel), a 2006 novel by Scott Turow
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Usage examples of "limitation".

Kuhl, that retarded people often resist acknowledging their limitations?

My illustrious friend still continuing to sound in my ears the imperious duty to which I was called, of making away with my sinful relations, and quoting many parallel actions out of the Scriptures, and the writings of the holy fathers, of the pleasure the Lord took in such as executed his vengeance on the wicked, I was obliged to acquiesce in his measures, though with certain limitations.

Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.

The latter interpretation, however, does not state a limitation on the power of making treaties in the sense of international conventions, but rather a necessary procedure before certain conventions are cognizable by the courts in the enforcement of rights under them, while the former interpretation has been contradicted in practice from the outset.

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We would perhaps no longer be reading the authentic Sartre, but this move might provide an opportunity to depart from the metaphysical negativity of authenticity and bad faith that linger as symptoms of the limitations of existentialism, and to see how Sartre contributes to the power of Nietzsche in philosophy today.

Augustus Gom, like so many women of her type, had serious limitations.

Eldership only a cyclic ago, the result of a drudokyi attack elsewhere on Gree, and she was still coming to grips with these new limitations that had been imposed on her.

Constitution provides for no limitations on the guarantees of personal liberty, except as to habeas corpus.

You are indeed very powerful, but the diamond support has its limitations.

Their peculiar nature did not protect them from strain and limitation: the necessary, ineluctable, and crippling strictures of Time.

Garden, riders called the place, the area all around and northeast of Anveney, where the soil lay completely bare and prone to erosion, gullies leading to gullies leading to a wash that ran down to a river that ran through barren banks a long, long way before the inpouring of other streams began to put more life into Limitation River than death could take out.

As one of the radical critics of reductionist science in the last decades, I have taken my own part in these debates, and I have lived the best part of my life with a feminist sociologist of science whose searching exposure of the nature of a masculinist and largely white science as it is practised in western capitalist societies will soon reveal the weak places in any uncritical defence of a science which refuses to recognize its limitations.

Television shows now adopt the ironic humor of much metafiction, and begin to poke fun at themselves, and dramatize their limitations.

Is it to continue, without other limitations against cruelty than those which are self-imposed, without legal restriction or restraint, so long as civilization endures, ever widening its scope, ever increasing the hecatombs of its victims, until uncounted milions shall have been sacrificed?