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▪ I. limiting, vbl. n.|ˈlɪmɪtɪŋ|
[f. limit v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. limit; an instance of this.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Modification...a qualifying, moderating, limiting, or releasing. 1608Hieron Wks. I. To Chr. Rdr. (ante 689) Forms of prayer..are aiudged to be a kind of..limiting of Gods Spirit. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 405 A bold limiting of the time of forty days.
▪ II. limiting, ppl. a.|ˈlɪmɪtɪŋ|
[f. limit v. + -ing2.]
That limits, in senses of the vb. limiting angle (see quot. 1873). limiting parallels (see quot. 1867).
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps vii. §7. 192 It would be needful to accept some well known examples..for final and limiting authorities. 1864Bowen Logic v. 131 The Condition..can always be expressed by a limiting adjective. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. i. 33 Even with well-meant efforts of the practical spirit it [sc. criticism] must express dissatisfaction, if in the sphere of the ideal they seem impoverishing and limiting. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Limiting parallels, the parallels of latitude upon the earth's surface, within which occultations of stars or planets by the moon are possible. 1873W. Lees Acoustics ii. iii. 53 In order that a ray may pass from a dense medium into a rarer, the angle of incidence must not exceed a certain limit,..this angle is called the limiting or critical angle of refraction. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 539 The limiting zone between the external cortex and the bast-layer.
Add:1. That constitutes a limit; spec. constituting a value or case that is approached but never surpassed or never reached.
1647Sanderson Serm. II. 221 Such kind of limiting and diminuent terms. 1799J. Wood Elements Optics iv. 56 The limiting ratio of an evanescent arc to its sine is a ratio of equality. 1884F. Krohn tr. Glaser de Cew's Magneto- & Dynamo-Electr. Machines 161 The slightest current then started in one or the other direction..will rapidly increase to a limiting value. 1895N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. 291 The trigonal proto-pyramid may be regarded..as being a limiting case of the ditrigonal proto-pyramid. 1914C. D. Broad Perception i. 7 Qualities which vary continuously as we move about and which, in some limiting case, coincide with those of what exists whether we perceive it or not. 1989Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Soc. XL. 507 The overall entropy change is zero only in the limiting case of a reversible process. |
