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Limitation
//lɪmɪˈteɪʃən// noun
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Noun
- 1 The act of limiting or the state of being limited. countable, uncountable
- 2 an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) wordnet
- 3 A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance. countable, uncountable
"Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in."
- 4 the quality of being limited or restricted wordnet
- 5 An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value. countable, uncountable
"Both the MI score and the t-score have their limitations. MI computes a logarithm representing the number of co-occurrences of words compared to their occurrences apart in the corpus, which can highlight rare collocations if the components tend not to occur with other words. The t-score formula is less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes."
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- 6 a principle that limits the extent of something wordnet
- 7 A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought. countable, uncountable
"The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation."
- 8 the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed wordnet
- 9 (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.
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