limiting

limiting
    adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn:
           {confining}, {constraining}, {constrictive}, {limiting},
           {restricting}]
    2: strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase;
       "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books
       that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only
       those particular ones defined by the clause"
    n 1: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies
         the meaning of the phrase [syn: {modification},
         {qualifying}, {limiting}]
    

Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limited}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Limiting}.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr.
   limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E.
   eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.]
   To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate,
   circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit
   the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to
   limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of
   a word.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Limiting parallels} (Astron.), those parallels of latitude
      between which only an occultation of a star or planet by
      the moon, in a given case, can occur.
      [1913 Webster]
    

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "limiting":
      altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding,
      caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping,
      defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining,
      enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory,
      extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive,
      limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal,
      mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying,
      modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative,
      qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming,
      skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating,
      terminative, threshold, ultimate