English Dictionary

limitation

/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

noun

The act of limiting or the state of being limited. / A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.

There is a limitation on the number of participants for the event.

意味（1）

The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

意味（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.

意味（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 less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes.

意味（4）

(law) 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.