Limiting
['lɪmɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limit
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Examples
- The preceding Section has shown clearly the danger of too strong a current, and the necessity for limiting the current to that which the wire can safely carry. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Such expenses as the dignity of his station required he readily sustained, limiting them by the strictest rules of propriety. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A certain blunt, blind stupidity in him palled on her soul, limiting her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Ora