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limiting factor in American English an environmental factor that limits the growth or activities of an organism or that restricts the size of a population or its geographical range limiting factor in American Englishnoun1. Physiology the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps 2. Biology an environmental factor that tends to limit population size Examples of 'limiting factor' in a sentencelimiting factor One limiting factor is the number of air traffic controllers.The limiting factor in adopting alternative medicine's less controversial techniques is time.If resources are a limiting factor, internet companies should be asked to provide them.Wherever one looks at the shortages of equipment, cost has been the limiting factor.On the other, it has been a limiting factor.I have never looked at age as a limiting factor anyway.The tyres, not the engine, are the limiting factor, he reasoned sanely.The limiting factor in suburban spread is often travel time, either by public or private means.Soil is another limiting factor.Hitherto, space has been the limiting factor, and the politics of overcrowding that kicks in as it fills up. |