limitingn.

Brit.

/ˈlɪmᵻtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlɪmᵻdɪŋ/

Forms: see limit v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: limit v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < limit v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare limitation n.

The action of limit v.; an instance of this.In quot. a1475: a territorial boundary.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun]

limiting1391

moderation1429

bridlingc1443

limitation1483

confine1548

restriction1554

limit1572

prescription1604

bounding1607

circumscriptiona1616

stricture1649

stinting1656

circumscribing1660

contractiona1670

confinement1678

contracting1692

handcuff1814

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary

thresholdeOE

randeOE

markeOE

mereOE

limiting1391

march1402

confrontc1430

bourne1523

limity1523

mereing1565

mark-mere1582

ring1598

land-mere1603

limit1655

field boundary1812

landimere1825

section-line1827

wad1869

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation

definitionc1386

limiting1391

moderation1429

limitation1483

restriction1554

restraint1566

limit1572

stint1593

prescription1604

stintance1605

bounding1607

confining1608

confine1609

circumscriptiona1616

definement1643

stricture1649

stinting1656

circumscribing1660

contractiona1670

confinement1678

contracting1692

narrowing1871

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

1391 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1862) IV. 379 The bischap referris hym to Forbes charter of lymytyng of the meris.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 270 William Fitz Petir..yaf..j acre of mede in the mede that is I-called Rouueneye with-in the limityng of the parissh of karsynton.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Modification...a qualifying, moderating, limiting, or releasing.

1608 S. Hieron Helpe vnto Deuotion in Wks. (1620) I. To Christian Rdr. (ante 689) Forms of prayer..are aiudged to be a kind of..limiting of Gods Spirit.

1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xvii. 128 A bold limiting of the time of forty days.

1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) xiv. 195 That evil is of less Consequence to the Service, than what the Limitting of the Governour's Power might produce.

1750 London Mag. Oct. 458/2 Many good effects had arisen from the limiting of the exportation of corn to British ships.

1812 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Sept. 297 The Act of Settlement.., made by our ancestors for the limiting of the Crown.

1871 E. Seyd Suggestions Metallic Currency of U.S. 164 The limiting of the size of Gold Coins is a matter requiring some consideration.

1910 J. P. C. Southall Princ. & Methods Geom. Optics xiv. 550 The actual stop that is thus responsible for the limiting of the field of view of the object may be called the field-stop.

1939 C. H. Madge & T. H. Harrisson Brit. by Mass-observ. (2009) ii. 94 The Postmaster General appealed for shorter phone-calls and a limiting of non-essential conversations.

1999 E. R. Kantowicz Rage of Nations xxiv. 436 Participating nations adopted extensive rules for the..limiting of unnecessary damage to civilians.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

limitingadj.

Brit.

/ˈlɪmᵻtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈlɪmᵻdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: limit v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < limit v. + -ing suffix².

†1. limiting friar: = friar limiter at limiter n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently an idiosyncratic use of Whythorne's, perhaps due to some misapprehension.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar > within certain limits

limiterc1400

limiting friarc1576

limitarya1662

society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > begging > within limits

limiterc1400

limiting friarc1576

limitarya1662

c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 125 Limiting frierz which went A begging abowt þe kuntreyz.

2. That limits something (in various senses of the verb).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

shrinking?a1400

welkinga1400

moderativec1487

thinning1551

wanzing1571

decreasing1591

restricting1606

lessening1611

waning1632

assuaging1651

limiting1656

mitigating1749

diminishing1793

decrescent1811

shrivelling1849

dropping1894

scanting1916

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective]

restraintive1526

limitative1530

circumscribing1571

restrictive1580

continent1598

restricting1606

confininga1616

contractive1624

strait-lacing1636

limiting1656

cohibitive1668

contracting1765

limitary1822

restrictionary1828

narroweOE

restraintive1526

limitative1530

circumscribing1571

restrictive1580

restraining1597

continent1598

restricting1606

confininga1616

contractive1624

strait-lacing1636

limiting1656

cohibitive1668

contracting1765

restrictory1776

limitary1822

restrictionary1828

scopeless1882

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > determining boundary

demarcating1840

limiting1884

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 308 Such kinde of limiting and diminuent terms.

1679 Bp. T. Barlow Let. conc. Invoc. Saints 26 They did it with such Qualifications, and limiting clauses annex'd, which plainly shew that they were dubious.

1767 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 582/2 If this be a limiting clause, it is so worded that no minister could, or in fact did, avail himself of it.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. vii. 192 It would be needful to accept some well known examples..for final and limiting authorities.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 131 The Condition..can always be expressed by a limiting adjective.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 539 The limiting zone between the external cortex and the bast-layer.

1923 Bull. Oregon Agric. Coll. Exper. Station No. 200. 23 In the former, nitrogen must be considered limiting and in the latter, carbohydrates.

1935 P. S. Welch Limnol. xvi. 364 Iron was present in very small amounts and did not seem to have a limiting effect by exerting a toxic action.

1990 C. Rose Dirty Man of Europe (1991) iii. 86 The supply of nitrogen becomes limiting in July and August when agricultural crops grow rapidly.

2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields iv. 160 One of the limiting factors controlling crow numbers in the uplands is the availability of tree-nesting sites.

3. That is or constitutes a limit; (Mathematics, of a point or value) that can be approached progressively without ever being surpassed or reached.

ΘΚΠ

limiting1799

1799 J. Wood Elements Optics iv. 56 The limiting ratio of an evanescent arc to its sine is a ratio of equality.

1884 F. Krohn tr. G. Glaser de Cew Magneto- & Dynamo-electr. Machines 161 The slightest current then started in one or the other direction..will rapidly increase to a limiting value.

1914 C. D. Broad Perception, Physics & Reality 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.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 507 The overall entropy change is zero only in the limiting case of a reversible process.

2012 Philos. Sci. 79 212 The ratio approaches a limiting value of 2 as a goes to infinity.

Compounds

limiting angle n. Optics the largest angle of incidence (between the ray and the perpendicular to the surface) for which a ray will pass from a dense medium into a less dense one.An incident ray striking at a larger angle (i.e. a more glancing ray) is reflected, and does not enter the other medium.

ΚΠ

1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 408 DE will be the measure of the limiting angle which can be observed by this construction.

1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope (ed. 6) i. 3 The ‘limiting angle’ for Flint-glass, its index of refraction being 1.60, is 38° 41'.

2003 D. H. Goldstein Polarized Light (ed. 2) xxvi. 521 A similar computation is required for the limiting angle for the extraordinary ray at which total reflection does not occur.

limiting parallel n. a parallel line or parallel of latitude that constitutes a limit or boundary; (Astronomy) each of the two parallels of latitude within which the moon is able to obscure a particular star or planet by occultation.

ΚΠ

1754 J. Robertson Elements Navigation I. v. i. 171 In the southern hemisphere, the limiting parallel is called the Tropic of Capricorn.

1853 T. J. Lee Coll. Tables & Formulæ useful in Surv. (ed. 2) p. ix The values of N and R, etc., within the limiting parallels of the territory of the United States, were computed by Lieut. Thom, Corps Topographical Engineers.

1854 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 68 329 Euler proposed and determined the cone which equalizes the errors and distortion on the central and the two limiting parallels.

1871 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 32 246 Mr. Spear, finding himself well within the limiting parallels, watched with confidence for the occultation of ζ Tauri.

1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 6 259 (table) State... Limiting meridians... Limiting parallels.

1944 W. M. Smart Text-bk. Spherical Astron. (ed. 4) xv. 373 In addition, the limiting parallels of latitude are given, outside which an occultation is impossible.

2006 S. Kumar Basics Remote Sensing iv. 77 To design a projection, limiting parallels and limiting meridians are prescribed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	limiting
释义	limitingn. Brit. /ˈlɪmᵻtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlɪmᵻdɪŋ/ Forms: see limit v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: limit v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < limit v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare limitation n. The action of limit v.; an instance of this.In quot. a1475: a territorial boundary. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] limiting1391 moderation1429 bridlingc1443 limitation1483 confine1548 restriction1554 limit1572 prescription1604 bounding1607 circumscriptiona1616 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 handcuff1814 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary thresholdeOE randeOE markeOE mereOE limiting1391 march1402 confrontc1430 bourne1523 limity1523 mereing1565 mark-mere1582 ring1598 land-mere1603 limit1655 field boundary1812 landimere1825 section-line1827 wad1869 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation definitionc1386 limiting1391 moderation1429 limitation1483 restriction1554 restraint1566 limit1572 stint1593 prescription1604 stintance1605 bounding1607 confining1608 confine1609 circumscriptiona1616 definement1643 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 narrowing1871 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 1391 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1862) IV. 379 The bischap referris hym to Forbes charter of lymytyng of the meris. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 270 William Fitz Petir..yaf..j acre of mede in the mede that is I-called Rouueneye with-in the limityng of the parissh of karsynton. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Modification...a qualifying, moderating, limiting, or releasing. 1608 S. Hieron Helpe vnto Deuotion in Wks. (1620) I. To Christian Rdr. (ante 689) Forms of prayer..are aiudged to be a kind of..limiting of Gods Spirit. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xvii. 128 A bold limiting of the time of forty days. 1727 H. Bland Treat. Mil. Discipline (ed. 2) xiv. 195 That evil is of less Consequence to the Service, than what the Limitting of the Governour's Power might produce. 1750 London Mag. Oct. 458/2 Many good effects had arisen from the limiting of the exportation of corn to British ships. 1812 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 5 Sept. 297 The Act of Settlement.., made by our ancestors for the limiting of the Crown. 1871 E. Seyd Suggestions Metallic Currency of U.S. 164 The limiting of the size of Gold Coins is a matter requiring some consideration. 1910 J. P. C. Southall Princ. & Methods Geom. Optics xiv. 550 The actual stop that is thus responsible for the limiting of the field of view of the object may be called the field-stop. 1939 C. H. Madge & T. H. Harrisson Brit. by Mass-observ. (2009) ii. 94 The Postmaster General appealed for shorter phone-calls and a limiting of non-essential conversations. 1999 E. R. Kantowicz Rage of Nations xxiv. 436 Participating nations adopted extensive rules for the..limiting of unnecessary damage to civilians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). limitingadj. Brit. /ˈlɪmᵻtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlɪmᵻdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: limit v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < limit v. + -ing suffix². †1. limiting friar: = friar limiter at limiter n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently an idiosyncratic use of Whythorne's, perhaps due to some misapprehension. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > licensed beggar > within certain limits limiterc1400 limiting friarc1576 limitarya1662 society > faith > church government > monasticism > friar > [noun] > begging > within limits limiterc1400 limiting friarc1576 limitarya1662 c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 125 Limiting frierz which went A begging abowt þe kuntreyz. 2. That limits something (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] shrinking?a1400 welkinga1400 moderativec1487 thinning1551 wanzing1571 decreasing1591 restricting1606 lessening1611 waning1632 assuaging1651 limiting1656 mitigating1749 diminishing1793 decrescent1811 shrivelling1849 dropping1894 scanting1916 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting narroweOE restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 restraining1597 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 restrictory1776 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 scopeless1882 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [adjective] > determining boundary demarcating1840 limiting1884 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 308 Such kinde of limiting and diminuent terms. 1679 Bp. T. Barlow Let. conc. Invoc. Saints 26 They did it with such Qualifications, and limiting clauses annex'd, which plainly shew that they were dubious. 1767 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 582/2 If this be a limiting clause, it is so worded that no minister could, or in fact did, avail himself of it. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. vii. 192 It would be needful to accept some well known examples..for final and limiting authorities. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 131 The Condition..can always be expressed by a limiting adjective. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 539 The limiting zone between the external cortex and the bast-layer. 1923 Bull. Oregon Agric. Coll. Exper. Station No. 200. 23 In the former, nitrogen must be considered limiting and in the latter, carbohydrates. 1935 P. S. Welch Limnol. xvi. 364 Iron was present in very small amounts and did not seem to have a limiting effect by exerting a toxic action. 1990 C. Rose Dirty Man of Europe (1991) iii. 86 The supply of nitrogen becomes limiting in July and August when agricultural crops grow rapidly. 2007 R. Lovegrove Silent Fields iv. 160 One of the limiting factors controlling crow numbers in the uplands is the availability of tree-nesting sites. 3. That is or constitutes a limit; (Mathematics, of a point or value) that can be approached progressively without ever being surpassed or reached. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting > that constitutes a limit limiting1799 1799 J. Wood Elements Optics iv. 56 The limiting ratio of an evanescent arc to its sine is a ratio of equality. 1884 F. Krohn tr. G. Glaser de Cew Magneto- & Dynamo-electr. Machines 161 The slightest current then started in one or the other direction..will rapidly increase to a limiting value. 1914 C. D. Broad Perception, Physics & Reality 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. 1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 507 The overall entropy change is zero only in the limiting case of a reversible process. 2012 Philos. Sci. 79 212 The ratio approaches a limiting value of 2 as a goes to infinity. Compounds limiting angle n. Optics the largest angle of incidence (between the ray and the perpendicular to the surface) for which a ray will pass from a dense medium into a less dense one.An incident ray striking at a larger angle (i.e. a more glancing ray) is reflected, and does not enter the other medium. ΚΠ 1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 408 DE will be the measure of the limiting angle which can be observed by this construction. 1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope (ed. 6) i. 3 The ‘limiting angle’ for Flint-glass, its index of refraction being 1.60, is 38° 41'. 2003 D. H. Goldstein Polarized Light (ed. 2) xxvi. 521 A similar computation is required for the limiting angle for the extraordinary ray at which total reflection does not occur. limiting parallel n. a parallel line or parallel of latitude that constitutes a limit or boundary; (Astronomy) each of the two parallels of latitude within which the moon is able to obscure a particular star or planet by occultation. ΚΠ 1754 J. Robertson Elements Navigation I. v. i. 171 In the southern hemisphere, the limiting parallel is called the Tropic of Capricorn. 1853 T. J. Lee Coll. Tables & Formulæ useful in Surv. (ed. 2) p. ix The values of N and R, etc., within the limiting parallels of the territory of the United States, were computed by Lieut. Thom, Corps Topographical Engineers. 1854 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 68 329 Euler proposed and determined the cone which equalizes the errors and distortion on the central and the two limiting parallels. 1871 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 32 246 Mr. Spear, finding himself well within the limiting parallels, watched with confidence for the occultation of ζ Tauri. 1895 Geogr. Jrnl. 6 259 (table) State... Limiting meridians... Limiting parallels. 1944 W. M. Smart Text-bk. Spherical Astron. (ed. 4) xv. 373 In addition, the limiting parallels of latitude are given, outside which an occultation is impossible. 2006 S. Kumar Basics Remote Sensing iv. 77 To design a projection, limiting parallels and limiting meridians are prescribed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1391adj.c1576
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