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limiting |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: limiting adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: {confining}, {constraining}, {constrictive}, {restricting}] 2: (grammar) 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" n : the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: {modification}, {qualifying}]
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