limiting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: limiting	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for limiting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
limiting adj restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting] 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" n the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase Synonym(s): modification, qualifying, limiting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Limit \Lim"it\ (l[icr]m"[icr]t), v. t. [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.