Limitation

//lɪmɪˈteɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of limiting or the state of being limited. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    the quality of being limited or restricted wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a principle that limits the extent of something wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed wordnet
  4. 9
    (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.

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