 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
limiting
adjective
1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: {confining},
{constraining}, {constrictive}, {restricting}]
2: 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"
noun: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies
the meaning of the phrase [syn: {modification}, {qualifying}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), verb (used with an object) [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "limiting":
altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding,
caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping,
defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining,
enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory,
extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive,
limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal,
mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying,
modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative,
qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming,
skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating,
terminative, threshold, ultimate
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