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

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limitation

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Source Word

limitation

IPA(Pronunciation)

/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

制限 / 限定 / 制約 / 限界

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The committee noted a limitation in the study's methodology that required further investigation.

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委員会は研究の方法論に制約があることを指摘し、さらなる調査が必要だとした。

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Sense（1）

The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

Sense（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.

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Sense（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.

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