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The act of limiting or the state of being limited.countableuncountable
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A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.countableuncountable
- 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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An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.countableuncountable
- Both the MI score and the t-score have their limitations. MI computes a logarithm representing the number of co-occurrences of words compared to their occurrences apart in the corpus, which can highlight rare collocations if the components
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A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.countableuncountable
- The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.
ant. limitlessness