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

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Noun

limiting (plural limitings)

A limitation.

Verb

limiting

present participle of limit

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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