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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
limiting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
▪ The log-hyperbolic distribution offers the possibility of a range of curve fittings, one limiting case of which is the log-normal distribution.
▪ In the limiting case, therefore, this control condition reduces to that in which no pre-training is given.
▪ There are two limiting cases to consider: the weak field case and the strong field case.
▪ The limiting case of the Ferrari-Ibañez-Bruni solution is particularly interesting.
▪ In the limiting case, the visitor is simply told that certain specimens and artifacts have certain kinds of names.
factor
▪ Yachts visiting Lake Saimaa must be fitted with holding tanks, but otherwise draught is the principal limiting factor.
▪ Another major limiting factor in excavation is the subjective nature of the excavation process.
▪ In practice, for a given area to remain in isostatic equilibrium, there would always be a limiting factor.
▪ Resources are, however, a major limiting factor.
▪ On the other hand fetch is the limiting factor in the height of waves generated by easterly winds over the North Sea.
▪ The other limiting factor is the creative one.
▪ The other limiting factor in relation to flower pollination and fruit setting is weather.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I found staying at home with the kids very limiting.
▪ I found the lack of available reference books very limiting.
▪ There is a lot of research that still needs to be done, but money is an important limiting factor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I began this discussion by saying that adherence to systematic nomenclature is a limiting kind of freedom.
▪ In practice, for a given area to remain in isostatic equilibrium, there would always be a limiting factor.
▪ Significant cyclosporin toxicity during prolonged treatment is minimal and does not appear to be a limiting factor at this dose of cyclosporin.
▪ Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limiting

Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.

Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur.

Wiktionary
limiting

n. A limitation. vb. (present participle of limit English)

WordNet
limiting
  1. adj. restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting]

  2. strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause"

  3. n. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying]

Wikipedia
Limiting
  1. redirect Limiter

Usage examples of "limiting".

Its principle was the abnegation of selfishness by strictly limiting the expenditure of every member to the amount really necessary to his comfort, dedicating the rest to humanity.

By limiting the accessibility of the names and telephone numbers of employees, a company makes it more difficult for the social engineer to identify targets in the company, or names of legitimate employees for use in deceiving other personnel.

It became the foundation of all our future amphibious operations and was often their limiting factor.

As already explained, the main limiting factor to the size of the landing-force is the availability of special landing-craft.

In taxing the income of a nonresident, there is no denial of equal protection in limiting the deduction of losses to those sustained within the State, although residents are permitted to deduct all losses, wherever incurred.

To construe the one clause as limiting rather than supplementing the other would be to ignore their history, and without effecting any discernible purpose of their enactment, to deny to both the States and the National Government powers which were common attributes of sovereignty before the adoption of the Constitution.

Moreover, the due process clause has been interpreted as not requiring that the judgment of an expert commission be supplanted by the independent view of judges based on the conflicting testimony, prophecies, and impressions of expert witnesses when judicially reviewing a formula of a State regulatory commission for limiting daily production in an oil field and for proration among the several well owners.

The speed of light is going to remain the limiting velocity not just for us, but for all those lively and interesting people out there in the adjacent galaxies, and that puts the kibosh on the whole concept of a galaxy-spanning civilization.

In limiting the use of its highways for intrastate transportation for hire, a State reasonably may provide that carriers who have furnished adequate, responsible, and continuous service over a given route from a specified date in the past shall be entitled to licenses as a matter of right, but that the licensing of those whose service over the route began later than the date specified shall depend upon public convenience and necessity.

It was not easy: words were too precise for such amorphous things, too limiting when the oneiric images flickered and shifted and were, anyway, composed more of emotion than any substantial matter.

It wa,s not easy: words were too precise for such amorphous things, too limiting when the oneiric images flickered and shifted and were, anyway, composed more of emotion than any substantial matter.

But just as in the case of births it was possible for the State to frame limiting conditions within which individuality plays more freely than in the void, so the founders of this modern Utopia believed it possible to define conditions under which every individual born with poietic gifts should be enabled and encouraged to give them a full development, in art, philosophy, invention, or discovery.

It was pumped dry before acceleration and then, after limiting velocity had been attained, had to be cleared by hand of soil and torn vegetation before it could be refilled.

On the third reading several amendments were moved, but were all rejected, and it was finally carried with a rider, proposed by Sir George Saville, limiting the duration of the bill to seven years.

State tribunal which prevents a recovery of taxes imposed in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States by invoking a State law limiting suits to recover taxes alleged to have been assessed illegally to taxes paid at the time and in the manner provided by said law.