LIMITING
confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting
(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action
limiting
(adjective) 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”
modification, qualifying, limiting
(noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
limiting (plural limitings)
A limitation.
Verb
limiting
present participle of limit
Source: Wiktionary
LIMIT
Lim"it, n. Etym: [From L. limes, limitis: cf. F.limite; -or from E.
limit, v. See Limit, v. t.]
1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the
bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk,
of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits
strayed. Pope.
2. The space or thing defined by limits.
The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally. Shak.
3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself;
the full time or extent.
The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak.
The limit of your lives is out. Shak.
4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. Shak.
5. (Logic & Metaph.)
Definition: A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a
differentia.
6. (Math.)
Definition: A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually
approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference,
but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never
become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See under Elastic.
– Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison,
within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come.
Syn.
– Boundary; border; edge; termination; restriction; bound; confine.
Lim"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] Etym:
[F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to
limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.]
Definition: 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.
Lim"it, v. i.
Definition: To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited
region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition