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LIMITATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
Synonyms:
limitation; restriction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("limitation" is a kind of...):
regulating; regulation (the act of controlling or directing according to rule)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limitation"):
load-shedding (cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply)
arms control (a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country)
hold-down (a limitation or constraint)
freeze (fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level)
clampdown (sudden restriction on an activity)
Derivation:
limit (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
limit (restrict or confine within limits)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being limited or restricted
Example:
it is a good plan but it has serious limitations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("limitation" is a kind of...):
disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)
Derivation:
limit (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
limit (restrict or confine within limits)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A principle that limits the extent of something
Example:
I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements
Synonyms:
limitation; restriction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("limitation" is a kind of...):
regulation; rule (a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limitation"):
narrowness (a restriction of range or scope)
quantification (a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers 'some' or 'all' or 'no'))
restraint (a rule or condition that limits freedom)
Derivation:
limit (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
limit (restrict or confine within limits)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
Example:
it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight
Synonyms:
limit; limitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("limitation" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limitation"):
extremum; peak (the most extreme possible amount or value)
cutoff (a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated)
Sense 5
Meaning:
(law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought
Example:
statute of limitations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("limitation" is a kind of...):
time limit (a time period within which something must be done or completed)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
limit (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
limit (restrict or confine within limits)
Context examples:
One limitation of the study, the researchers note, is that the participants’ protein intake was based on a single 24-hour dietary recall.
(Protein Consumption Linked to Longevity, NIH)
Marked limitations of ordinary physical activity.
(Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading Scale Class III, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
While photon up-conversion can overcome this limitation, up-converted materials have low efficiency or high toxicity.
(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)
A finding associated with a patient with defined or presumed cardiac disease with marked limitation of physical activity.
(New York Heart Association Class III, NCI Thesaurus)
He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part—in which he was officially interested—of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
With treatment, many people lead normal lives with few limitations.
(Hydrocephalus, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Clinical signs include limitation of upward gaze, light-near dissociation of the pupillary response, eyelid retraction (Collier's sign) and convergence-retraction nystagmus.
(Parinaud Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
So much, for the moment, for my two white companions, whose characters and limitations will be further exposed, as surely as my own, as this narrative proceeds.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
These classes are defined as follows: Class III - patients with cardiac disease producing marked limitation of activity: comfortable at rest.
(New York Heart Association Class III/IV, NCI Thesaurus)
