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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  limiting
       adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining,
               constraining, constrictive, restricting]
       2: 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 [syn: modification, qualifying]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     n.
     A limitation.
     vb.
     (present participle of en limit nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     n.
     A limitation.
     vb.
     (present participle of en limit nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     n.
     A limitation.
     vb.
     (present participle of en limit nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     n.
     A limitation.
     vb.
     (present participle of en limit nocat=1)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm l imit ing)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  limiting
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en limit ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb limit)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/
  التحديد

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/
   [eko] limitující

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ 
  vymezení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ 
  ohraničení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/ 
  omezující

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/
  Begrenzung 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/
  beschränkend, begrenzend, einschränkend, limitierend
     Synonyms: restricting, confining to
  
   see: limit sth., restrict sth., confine sth. to sth., limited, restricted, confined to, limit expenses, Please limit your comments to 200 words., You should restrict the amount of salt you use., We must confine ourselves to the most important items.
  

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  limiting /lˈɪmɪtɪŋ/
  ograničavanja, ograničavanje

From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lit ]

  limiting /'lımıtıŋ/ 
  apribojantis, varžantis, trukdantis

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɫɪmətɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "limiting":
     altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding,
     caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping,
     defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining,
     enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory,
     extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive,
     limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal,
     mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying,
     modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative,
     qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming,
     skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating,
     terminative, threshold, ultimate
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 限制的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 限制的

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