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Another word for limitation

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Noun

  1. The act of limiting or condition of being limited

    See also:

    limited

  2. Something that limits or restricts

    See also:

    limited

  3. The greatest amount or number allowed

    See also:

    limited

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Another word for limitation

Noun

  1. The act of limiting

    See also:

    prevention

    interruption

    interference

    arrest

    Antonyms:

  2. That which limits

    See also:

    restraint

    refusal

    impediment

    boundary

    barrier

    arrest

    Antonyms:

  3. A shortcoming

    See also:

    lack

    defect

    blemish

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Even with this limitation the subject is too vast for us to enter into details.

  • But this limitation is always taken for granted.

  • Was this limitation a reason for sacrificing the advantages we had gained?

  • All that it is necessary to assume is that the effects of the successive zones gradually diminish, whether from the increasing obliquity of the secondary ray or because (on account of the limitation of the region of integration) the zones become at last more and more incomplete.

  • Thus the limitation of the Milanese duchy under Filippo Maria Visconti, and its consolidation under Francesco Sforza, were equally effectual in preparing the balance of power to which Italian politics now tended.

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