limitations

Noun

limitation (countable and uncountable, plural limitations)

1. The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
2. A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
   • Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
3. An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
   • Both the MI score and the t-score have their limitations. MI computes a logarithm representing the number of co-occurrences of words compared to their occurrences apart in the corpus, which can highlight rare collocations if the components tend not to occur with other words. The t-score formula is...2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...
4. A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
   • The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.

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