limitation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being limited or restricted

   it is a good plan but it has serious limitations

2. 2
   noun

   (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought

   statute of limitations

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.

   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 tend not to occur with other words. The t-score formula is less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes.

5. 5
   noun

   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 ten-year limitation.

6. 6
   noun

   an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

7. 7
   noun

   a principle that limits the extent of something

8. 8
   noun

   the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.