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limiting factor
noun
- Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- Biology. an environmental factor that tends to limit population size.
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There's another limiting factor, which is that under the current tax code, debt forgiveness is taxable.
Food supply probably is not a limiting factor to populations of Gastrophryne on the area.
All these situations are characterized by providing abundant cover, a limiting factor for this woodrat.
The development of synthetic foods, the use of algae and fungi, rules out famine as a limiting factor.
Winter killing of the wood and catkins is probably the limiting factor in growing filberts in Western New York.
In such cases, the deficiency of these gaseous food elements may become a limiting factor in plant growth.
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