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      "\u02ccl\u026am\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u0259n"
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      "Latin limitatio.\nMorphologically limit + -ation"
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            "mean": "The act of limiting or the state of being limited."
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            "mean": "A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.\nGetting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.\nHe understood the exam material, but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.\n1962 December,  \u201cThe Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units\u201d, in  Modern Railways, page 383:The coaches are similar to those of the Hampshire diesel-electric units, which went into service in September, 1957, but have 8ft 6in wide bodies, instead of 9ft, because of loading gauge limitations on the South Eastern Division."
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            "mean": "An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.\n2018,  Clarence Green; James Lambert,  \u201cPosition vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists\u201d, in  English for Specific Purposes, \u2192DOI, page 5: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 less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes."
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            "mean": "(law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.\nThe lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation."
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