Limitation definition

lĭmĭ-tāshən
limitations
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A limiting or being limited.
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A limiting rule or condition; a restriction.

Are there any limitations on the agreement?

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A shortcoming or defect.

We need to overcome our limitations if we want to succeed.

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Something that limits, as some factor in makeup which restricts the scope of a person's activity or accomplishment; qualification.
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(law) A period of time, fixed by statute, during which legal action can be brought, as for settling a claim.
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A restriction.
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A condition or restriction placed upon real estate.
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See statute of limitations.
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A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.

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.

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The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

He was very successful in his limitation of salt intake.

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(law) A period established by statute during which a lawsuit or criminal prosecution must be initiated.
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An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.
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The definition of a limitation is a restriction or a defect, or the act of imposing restrictions.

When you are only allowed to walk to the end of the block, this is an example of a limitation.

When there are certain things you are not good at doing, these are examples of limitations.

When a law has specific things that a person cannot do, the law is an example of a limitation.

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The act of placing a limit or restriction.
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Period of time during which an action must be filed. See statute of limitations.
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The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
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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 10 years limitation.

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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
limitation
Plural:
limitations

Limitation Sentence Examples

  • Even with this limitation the subject is too vast for us to enter into details.

  • But this limitation is always taken for granted.

  • Was this limitation a reason for sacrificing the advantages we had gained?

  • All that it is necessary to assume is that the effects of the successive zones gradually diminish, whether from the increasing obliquity of the secondary ray or because (on account of the limitation of the region of integration) the zones become at last more and more incomplete.

  • Thus the limitation of the Milanese duchy under Filippo Maria Visconti, and its consolidation under Francesco Sforza, were equally effectual in preparing the balance of power to which Italian politics now tended.

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