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limited

[lim-i-tid]

adjective

confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.

Government. restricted with reference to governing powers by limitations prescribed in laws and in a constitution, as in limited monarchy; limited government.

characterized by an inability to think imaginatively or independently; lacking originality or scope; narrow: a rather limited intelligence.

Chiefly British.

responsible for the debts of a company only to a specified amount proportionate to the percentage of stock held.

(of a business firm) owned by stockholders, each having a restricted liability for the company's debts.

(usually initial capital letter) incorporated; Inc. Abbreviation: Ltd.

(of railroad trains, buses, etc.) making only a limited number of stops en route.

noun

a limited train, bus, etc.

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Origin:
1545–55; limit + -ed²

Related forms

lim·it·ed·ly, adverb

lim·it·ed·ness, noun

Example Sentences

And limited train service means many employees cannot get to work.

The service is still in a preview mode, meaning that only a limited number of people have been allowed in.

More than half the region's firms say limited access to electricity, telecoms and transport is a problem for business.

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And limited train service means many employees cannot get to work.

The service is still in a preview mode, meaning that only a limited number of people have been allowed in.

More than half the region's firms say limited access to electricity, telecoms and transport is a problem for business.

The archive will be available for a limited period of time.

State-legislated programs for the donation of unused drugs have seen limited success.

His writing showed that he had a great mind and a limited character.

And tall pots make it easier for gardeners with limited mobility to tend crops without kneeling or squatting.

But evidence from ancient skeletons has been limited.

In the short term, you should spend your limited willpower budget wisely.

If they are considered state employees, the union could remain, but it would be severely limited in what it could bargain for.

The president is limited to one six-year term of office.

Others were conscripted for a limited time from local villages.

It would have been impossible to address the many possible scenarios for future consumption in this limited space.

Growing underground, tubers are not limited by the rest of the plant.

Bullard's grilling adventures are not limited to sausage.

The specialist may also be asked to teach on a limited basis.

Congress may hope for only limited political fallout.

Tourism development is largely concentrated in only a few places and is limited in its visual impact.

Several drugs help to wean cocaine addicts from their physical dependency, but the compounds are limited in effectiveness.

They have limited the availability of fishing licenses.

Each seminar has a limited number of seats and requires an additional taste ticket, available on-site only.

Research interests may include but are not limited to host-vector pathogen relationships and transmission biology.

Their formal participation in politics remains limited but they were on the front-line of the recent protests.

But it was tricky to judge distance in the alien landscape, and stiff spacesuit gloves limited how fast he could work.

Armstrong is one of only a handful of experts in the understandably limited field of meltable architecture.

Some oaks are widely planted over large areas, while others have a limited range.

Editors at some houses have limited authority to depart from house style.

Various laws have been proposed or enacted to curtail lobbying, with limited success.

These technologies are currently in the early stages and may be limited in their application.

Free, but space is limited and seating is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

But they limited the landscape architect's planting choices.

Gitesatani was limited in where she could turn for advice.

The old set-up limited the days fishermen could be at sea.

Such driving forces are not limited to economic ones.

Discoveries of new species aren't limited to the remote depths of the unexplored oceans, though.

Local nurseries sometimes offer limited design services.

Cuomo concluded that many college-sponsored plans were inadequate, offering extremely limited coverage for students.

Some animal populations engage in destructive and aggressive behavior when in a limited space or crowded place.

Wider availability of the sewing machine and limited resources forced everyday people to become seamstresses and craftsmen.

Limited food, but you can order in appetizers from the neighboring restaurant.

And because these systems cannot stray from their canned phrases, their abilities are limited.

Murphy's limited finances and a strict moral code didn't spoil his chance at love.

Nurseries carry seedlings of many winter vegetables, but their selections may be limited.

They compete with one another for limited resources: brain time or bandwidth.

They completed a comprehensive and respectful makeover in four months on a limited budget.

Free, but registration is required and space is limited.

He keeps a limited number of objects on display and changes them every few months.

Smaller, more numerous carnivores would have seriously limited its feeding opportunities.

Space is limited and reservations are required for these screenings.

Limited range of motion is a reduction in the normal distance and direction through which a joint can move.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, teaching graduate and.

Damage from earthquakes is not limited to buildings, bridges, and dams.

It's the limited life span of batteries that keeps robots from being more widely available.

But even if you're limited to a lone container, you can still enjoy a summer's worth of homegrown produce.

The presentation in question was a rudimentary version used for a limited time that has since been replaced.

Insurers are defending a federal waiver that preserves limited benefit plans under the new health insurance law.

Bush limited public access to presidential records.

At first they seem of limited interest, but eventually they completely overturn existing products and markets.

But a proposal to allow limited fishing for scientific purposes was struck down by the panel.

Peshtigo's fire-fighting equipment was limited to a single horse-drawn steam pumper.

Edits are limited to a variety of presets as well as basic image adjustments like.

But they suffer from limited currency convertibility and a lack of investment opportunities.

Locations in the gazetteer are limited to features labeled on the maps.

Limited accessibility for mobility impaired guests.

The future of mobile sensing isn't limited to traffic monitoring.

If you're geographically limited in any way, then you're committing suicide.

Curbs imposed after the accounting debacle limited the damage this time.

He suggests the number of individuals a person can maintain true relationships with is limited by the programming of our brain.

At times, their litigation skills understandably reflected their limited practice experience.

Construction activity is not limited to the capital.

Keeping unwanted critters away can be tricky business, and options are somewhat limited.

Spiny agaves are limited to the front yard, while softer plants grow in back, where the children play.

All the sci-fi items are limited editions and will be available on the convention floor while supplies last.

The colleges' mission in educating low-income and underprepared students could be jeopardized by limited public support.

By sharing the leadership with others, he has made his policy hostage to the limited mandate.

Treatments such as electrical shocks, pills and sound therapy have had only limited success.

Like the scanning electron microscope, probe microscopies are limited to surface studies.

The journal isn't limited to grounded theory, but is rigorous in the.

None had their food intake artificially limited or, as with livestock, ramped up.

Despite advances in cancer genetics, physicians have only limited information to make decisions about individual patients.

It's this enduring appeal coupled with a limited housing supply that make for about as safe a second-home bet as you'll find.

Must be able to work with limited supervision and handle multiple tasks.

The board's powers are limited so that ordinary shareholders have little sway over the running of the company.

But their prediction was based on limited existing evidence.

Surely the only thing separating the two genera is not limited to the presence/absence of parietal fenestrae.

State schools may be limited in what they can offer under state law.

But her comprehension of what drives him is limited.

It is not limited to hands but can involve the entire body as well as other objects located nearby.

But even if you're limited to a lone container, you can still enjoy a summer.

It may merely be bad research practices if she is using a source that she only has limited access.

By law its official use-and bilingual education-is now limited to highland areas where it is predominant.

Nostalgia is not limited to any culture, stage of life or state of mental health.

No one has even commented on the propulsion system which is what has limited aircraft improvement since the first powered flight.

Does anyone know of any programs which allow this or have a somewhat limited residency requirement.

Reducing unemployment and income inequality are key policy concerns, but the resources to tackle them are limited.

The reason that it is limited is simply the fact that a finite amount of space is equivalent to a finite amount of time.

Our first stop was at the front desk, asking what would be the best to see in our limited time.

He is a wily politician, but his room for manoeuvre is limited.

We are limited to only our example of life on this planet with its specific chemistry and geological history.

And, again while it has limited benefit, the key word is limited.

Further, the relatively limited amount of soil in containers.

Sales will be limited to mall security and wildlife reservations.

It has always been a major tactic of these types of people to argue against those who have limited ability to argue back.

The impact of fossil fuel harvesting on dams and water supply is not limited to coal mining.

But evidence for this peculiar behavior has been limited to indirect detection via nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

It only provides a limited monopoly to their invention so as to attract investment.

The insanity plea is usually limited to those who can prove that they could not distinguish or choose due to a mental disorder.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.

a boundary or bound, as of a country, area, or district.

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.

limits, the premises or region enclosed within boundaries: We found them on school limits after hours.

Games. the maximum sum by which a bet may be raised at any one time.

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the limit, Informal. something or someone that exasperates, delights, etc., to an extreme degree: You have made errors before, but this is the limit.

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verb (used with object)

to restrict by or as if by establishing limits (usually followed by to): Please limit answers to 25 words.

to confine or keep within limits: to limit expenditures.

Law. to fix or assign definitely or specifically.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English lymyt < Latin līmit- (stem of līmes) boundary, path between fields

Related forms

lim·it·a·ble, adjective

lim·it·a·ble·ness, noun

o·ver·lim·it, verb (used with object)

re·lim·it, verb (used with object)

un·der·lim·it, noun

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un·der·lim·it, verb (used with object)

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Can be confused: 1. boundary, limit, parameter, variable (see synonym note at boundary; see usage note at parameter); 2. limit, limitation.

Synonyms
2. confine, frontier, border. 8. restrain, bound.

Link To limited

Collins

World English Dictionary

limited (ˈlɪmɪtɪd)

—*adj*
1.	having a limit; restricted; confined
2.	without fullness or scope; narrow
3.	(of governing powers, sovereignty, etc) restricted or checked, by or as if by a constitution, laws, or an assembly: limited government
4.	(US), (Canadian) (of a train) stopping only at certain stations and having only a set number of cars for passengers
5.	chiefly (Brit) (of a business enterprise) owned by shareholders whose liability for the enterprise's debts is restricted

—n
6.	(US), (Canadian) a limited train, bus, etc

'limitedly

—*adv*

'limitedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

limit

late 14c., "boundary, frontier," from O.Fr. limite "a boundary," from L. limitem (nom. limes) "a boundary, embankment between fields, border," related to limen "threshold." Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904. The verb is late 14c., from O.Fr. limiter,

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from L. limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes.

limited

1550s, pp. adj. from limit; as a stand-alone for limited express train, by 1883. Limited edition is from 1920; limited monarchy from 1640s; limited war is from 1948. In British company names, Limited (abbrev. Ltd.), 1855, is short for limited liability company, one in which

the liability of partners is limited, usually to the amount of their capital investment.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

limit lim·it (lĭm'ĭt)
n.

The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed.
A confining or restricting object, agent, or influence.
The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible.

v. lim·it·ed, lim·it·ing, lim·its

To confine or restrict within a boundary or bounds.
To fix definitely; to specify.

lim'it·a·ble adj.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

limit

(lĭm'ĭt) Pronunciation Key
A number or point for which, from a given set of numbers or points, one can choose an arbitrarily close number or point. For example, for the set of all real numbers greater than zero and less than one, the numbers one and zero are limit points, since one can pick a number from the set arbitrarily close to one or zero (even though one and zero are not themselves in the set). Limits form the basis for calculus, where a number L is defined to be the limit approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)-L| < ε if 0 < |x-a| < δ.

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