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Meanings of limitation in English

Portuguese
restrição
Catalan
limitació
Spanish
limitación

An act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

restrição

The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed.

The quality of being limited or restricted.

Usage of limitation in English
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Therefore, the aim is to solve the problem of stock DNA limitation.
Pubmed
2
Current designs have one limitation: They work only for the color red.
Wired
3
Space limitation leads to competition between benthic, sessile organisms on coral reefs.
Pubmed
4
Within-person change in functional limitation was not reliably associated with social activity.
Pubmed
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A major limitation of these measures is their dependence on disease prevalence.
Pubmed
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Her principal limitation is her movement, although that is sure to improve.
The Guardian
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And there are different ways to experience it, but there's no limitation.
Wired
8
There is no limitation to the divine forgiveness; you cannot exhaust it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
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By such limitation the people were protected and the central power secured.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 / (From Charlem...
10
The condition of both is a limitation and qualification of natural rights.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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The object of society was the limitation of the struggle for existence.
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
12
The heresy is the limitation of natural selection as applied to man.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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Background: The likelihood of restenosis is a major limitation of coronary angioplasty.
Pubmed
14
The limitation is how Greece is going to solve their deficit issues.
Reuters
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That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws.
Ender’s Game
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This latter limitation did not and could not exist in the Territories.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1
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