Hypertext Webster Gateway: "limiting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
limiting
adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: {confining},
{constraining}, {constrictive}, {restricting}]
2: (grammar) 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 : the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies
the meaning of the phrase [syn: {modification}, {qualifying}]
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