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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase;
[syn: modification, qualifying, limiting]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. restricting the scope or freedom of action;
[syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting]

2. strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase;
- Example: "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"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

limiting adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, 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 1: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying, limiting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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