limitation
/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in."
- "He understood the exam material, but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome."
- "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."
- "Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people."
- "Telling a story is like an invitation for others to share their stories with you. That’s what I discovered at TED when I shared my story about a limitation that held me back from my dream."
- "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."