Definitions for limiting

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limiting lim·it·ing

Spelling: [lim-i-ting]

IPA: /ˈlɪm ɪ tɪŋ/

Limiting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in limiting (giiilmnt).

Definitions for limiting

noun

1. the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.:
2. a boundary or bound, as of a country, area, or district.
3. Mathematics. a number such that the value of a given function remains arbitrarily close to this number when the independent variable is sufficiently close to a specified point or is sufficiently large. The limit of 1/ x is zero as x approaches infinity; the limit of (x − 1) 2 is zero as x approaches 1. a number such that the absolute value of the difference between terms of a given sequence and the number approaches zero as the index of the terms increases to infinity. one of two numbers affixed to the integration symbol for a definite integral, indicating the interval or region over which the integration is taking place and substituted in a primitive, if one exists, to evaluate the integral.
4. limits, the premises or region enclosed within boundaries:
5. Games. the maximum sum by which a bet may be raised at any one time.
6. the limit, Informal. something or someone that exasperates, delights, etc., to an extreme degree:

adjective

1. serving to restrict or restrain; restrictive; confining.
2. Grammar. of the nature of a limiting adjective or a restrictive clause.

verb (used with object)

1. to restrict by or as if by establishing limits (usually followed by to):
2. to confine or keep within limits:
3. Law. to fix or assign definitely or specifically.

Origin of limiting

First recorded in 1570-80; limit + -ing²

Examples for limiting

It was a more complicated system matching contributions in exchange for limiting spending on a state-by-state basis.

Many have left the religion of their childhoods because of such narrow and limiting attitudes.

But to have continued the same life would have been wrong because it would have been limiting.

Conservative advocates of limiting convictions to cases of “forcible rape” often rely on “traditional values.”

At that rate, the limiting grade for the team would be fifteen per cent.

Certainly; when you began I thought you were limiting the question to the case of friends.

M. Necker is to set about correcting abuses, and limiting privileges.

Who runs a democracy this way, limiting polling places and hours to ensure that nominees are crowned by a narrow band of fanatics?

Silicon chips are typically two-dimensional, Boahen explained, limiting the number of dedicated currents they can utilize.

We tried to find out if there were any means of limiting the number of participators in our scheme.