Dictionary

limitation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
2. (countable, uncountable) A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
   • Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people. 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:
   • Telling a story is like an invitation for others to share their stories with you. That’s what I discovered at TED when I shared my story about a limitation that held me back from my dream. 2013 June 2, Phil Hansen, “Art that embraces our limits”, in CNN:
   • Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
   • He understood the exam material, but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.
   • The coaches are similar to those of the Hampshire diesel-electric units, which went into service in September, 1957, but have 8ft 6in wide bodies, instead of 9ft, because of loading gauge limitations on the South Eastern Division. 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:
3. (countable, uncountable) An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
   • 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. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 5:
4. (countable, uncountable) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
   • The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.

Forms

Antonyms

limitlessness

Deriveds

statute of limitations · limitational · fee simple subject to executory limitation · colimitation · limitationist · self-limitation · nonlimitation · sublimitation

Relateds

limitative

Synonyms

prescription (time period)

Translations (71)

nl verjaringstermijn (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · ml പരിമിതി (restriction that limits) · nn avgrensing (restriction that limits) · sa अवधारण (restriction that limits) · ml കുറവ് (imperfection which limits) · mi aukatinga (restriction that limits) · pt limitação (act of limiting) · fi vanhentumisaika (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · cmn 訴訟時效 /诉讼时效 (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · de Einschränkung (restriction that limits) · ga cinnteacht (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · eo limigo (imperfection which limits) · ru ограниче́ние (restriction that limits) · nl beperking (act of limiting) · id keterbatasan (imperfection which limits) · de Limitieren (act of limiting) · hy սահմանափակում (act of limiting) · fi rajoitus (imperfection which limits) · fr limitation (restriction that limits) · da begrænsning (act of limiting) · fi rajoitus (act of limiting) · ru ограниче́ние (act of limiting) · cmn 限制 (restriction that limits) · th อายุความ (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · et piirang (restriction that limits) · nl inperking (act of limiting) · fi rajoittaminen (act of limiting) · eo limitado (act of limiting) · de Begrenzung (act of limiting) · de Einschränkung (imperfection which limits) · ca limitació (act of limiting) · nl beperking (restriction that limits) · nb begrensning (restriction that limits) · bg давност (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · it limitazione (act of limiting) · nl begrenzing (act of limiting) · eo limo (restriction that limits) · bg ограничаване (act of limiting) · fr limitation (act of limiting) · da begrænsning (restriction that limits) · eo limigeco (imperfection which limits) · cmn 限制 (act of limiting) · es cortapisa (restriction that limits) · nl grens (restriction that limits) · hy սահմանափակում (restriction that limits) · de Limitierung (act of limiting) · de Verjährungsfrist (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · bg ограничение (restriction that limits) · ca limitació (restriction that limits) · pt limitação (restriction that limits) · fi rajoitus (restriction that limits) · ru срок да́вности (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · mi aukatinga (act of limiting) · de Begrenzen (act of limiting) · ru ограниче́ние (imperfection which limits) · ga teorannú (act of limiting) · es limitación (restriction that limits) · it limitazione (restriction that limits) · ro limitare (act of limiting) · eo limigo (restriction that limits) · nb begrensning (act of limiting) · nb avgrensing (restriction that limits) · et piiramine (act of limiting) · nl beperking (imperfection which limits) · de Limitierung (restriction that limits) · id pembatasan (act of limiting) · ro limitare (restriction that limits) · ro termen de prescripție (time period — see also statute of limitations, prescription) · id batasan (restriction that limits) · cmn 局限性 (imperfection which limits) · es limitación (act of limiting)