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Limatation means a disadvantage or weakness in somebody or something!! Hope I helpedYour answer is INCORRECT!! the answer is for example if u have a table with data the limitation is the missing data in the table♥ Ur answer was quite right!!!

Actually.. i think she maybe right..there are different kinds of ways to answer that question.. depending what you need the answer for.. For example liminations in hairdressing means -

if a client has some sort of condition on their scalp.. e.g dandruff,alopecia, head lice or eczema etc.. depending on what condition the client has or how bad it is jus by looking the hairdresser will no how far she can take the treatment that the clients wants on their hair..so if the client had alopeacia then the hairdresser can carry out a service aslong as they dont use chemical products on the scalp or hair

i think that is right !

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# The point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed. # limits The boundary surrounding a specific area; bounds: within the city limits. # A confining or restricting object, agent, or influence. # The greatest or least amount, number, or extent allowed or possible: a withdrawal limit of $200; no minimum age limit. # Games. The largest amount which may be bet at one time in games of chance. # (Abbr.lim) Mathematics. A number or point L that is approached by a function f(x) as x approaches a if, for every positive number ε, there exists a number δ such that |f(x)−L| < ε if 0 < |x−a| < δ. Also called limit point, point of accumulation. # Informal. One that approaches or exceeds certain limits, as of credibility, forbearance, or acceptability: He is the limit of irresponsibility. tr.v., -it·ed, -it·ing, -its. # To confine or restrict within a boundary or bounds. # To fix definitely; to specify. [Middle English limite, from Old French, border, from Latin līmes, līmit-, border, limit.] limitable lim'it·a·ble adj. SYNONYMS limit, restrict, confine, circumscribe. These verbs mean to establish or keep within specified bounds. Limit refers principally to the establishment of a maximum beyond which a person or thing cannot or may not go: The Constitution limits the President's term of office to four years. To restrict is to keep within prescribed limits, as of choice or action: The sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted to those over 21. Confinesuggests imprisonment, restraint, or impediment: The children were confined to the nursery. Circumscribe connotes an encircling or surrounding line that confines, especially narrowly: "A man . . . should not circumscribe his activity by any inflexible fence of rigid rules" (John Stuart Blackie).
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n Definition: greatest extent

Antonyms: infinity, limitlessness, minimum

n Definition: physical boundary

Antonyms: center, limitlessness

v Definition: confine, restrict

Antonyms: allow, free, increase, let go, release, unbound

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n Restriction.

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Mathematical concept based on the idea of closeness, used mainly in studying the behaviour of http://www.answers.com/topic/functions close to values at which they are undefined. For example, the function 1/x is not defined at x = 0. For positive values of x, as x is chosen closer and closer to 0, the value of 1/x begins to grow rapidly, approaching http://www.answers.com/topic/infinity as a limit. This interplay of action and reaction as the independent http://www.answers.com/topic/variable moves closer to a given value is the essence of the idea of a limit. Limits provide the means of defining the http://www.answers.com/topic/derivative and http://www.answers.com/topic/integral of a function. For more information on limit, visit Britannica.com.

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IN BRIEF: n. -The boundary of a specific area; As far as something can go.

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination. - Unknown

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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (November 2008) In http://www.answers.com/topic/mathematics, the concept of a "limit" is used to describe the http://www.answers.com/topic/behavior of a http://www.answers.com/topic/function as its argument or input either "gets close" to some point, or as the argument becomes arbitrarily large; or the behavior of a http://www.answers.com/topic/sequence-4's elements as their http://www.answers.com/topic/index-mathematics increases indefinitely. Limits are used in http://www.answers.com/topic/calculus and other branches of http://www.answers.com/topic/mathematical-analysis to define http://www.answers.com/topic/derivative and http://www.answers.com/topic/continuous-function. In formulas, limit is usually abbreviated as lim (see below). The concept of the "limit of a function" is further generalized to the concept of http://www.answers.com/topic/net-in-business, while the limit of a sequence is closely related to http://www.answers.com/topic/limit-category-theory and http://www.answers.com/topic/direct-limit-1 in http://www.answers.com/topic/category-theory. [hide]

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http://www.answers.com/topic/karl-weierstra formally defined a limit as follows: Let f be a function defined on an http://www.answers.com/topic/interval-mathematics containing c (except possibly at c) and let L be a http://www.answers.com/topic/real-number. : means that : for each real ε > 0 there exists a real δ > 0 such that for all x with 0 < |x − c| < δ, we have |f(x) − L| < ε. or, symbolically, : Compared to the informal discussion above, the fact that ε can be any arbitrarily small positive number corresponds to being able to bring f(x) as close to L as desired. The δ marks some "sufficiently close" distance for values of xfrom c such that f(x) stays within a distance less than ε from the limit L. The formal http://www.answers.com/topic/definition-of-limit is sometimes called the delta-epsilon form because it uses the http://www.answers.com/topic/greek-alphabet-2 http://www.answers.com/topic/delta-letter (δ) and http://www.answers.com/topic/epsilon (ε). The use of the particular Greek letters δ and ε is merely traditional; the definition would, of course, be unchanged if different letters or symbols were used. (The ∀ above is a symbol used in http://www.answers.com/topic/universal-quantification for "for all.") An alternative definition without quantifiers can be found at http://www.answers.com/topic/non-standard-calculus. Caution: It should be noted that this definition provides a way to recognize a limit without providing a way to calculate it. One often needs to find a limit using informal methods, especially when f(x) is discontinuous at c, for example, when f is a ratio with a denominator that becomes 0 at c. One should check that the result actually meets the Weierstrass definition in such cases. A related concept to limits as x approaches some finite number is the limit as x approaches positive or negative http://www.answers.com/topic/infinity. This does not literally mean that the difference between x and infinity becomes small, since infinity is not a real number; rather, it means that xeither grows without bound positively (positive infinity) or grows without bound negatively (negative infinity). For example, consider f(x) = 2x/(x + 1). * f(100) = 1.9802 * f(1000) = 1.9980 * f(10000) = 1.9998 As x becomes extremely large, the value of f(x) approaches 2, and the value of f(x) can be made as close to 2 as one could wish just by picking x sufficiently large. In this case, we say that the limit of f(x) as x approaches infinity is 2. In mathematical notation, : For all x > S, f(x) is within ε of L

Formally, we have the definition : if and only if for each ε > 0 there exists an S such that Note that the S in the definition will generally depend on ε. A similar definition applies for If one considers the http://www.answers.com/topic/domain-mathematics of f to be the http://www.answers.com/topic/extended-real-number-line-1, then the limit of a function at infinity can be considered as a special case of limit of a function at a point. : Main article: http://www.answers.com/topic/limit-of-a-sequence Consider the following sequence: 1.79, 1.799, 1.7999,... We could observe that the numbers are "approaching" 1.8, the limit of the sequence. Formally, suppose x1, x2, ... is a http://www.answers.com/topic/sequence-4 of http://www.answers.com/topic/real-number. We say that the real number L is the limit of this sequence and we write : to mean : For every http://www.answers.com/topic/real-number ε > 0, there exists a http://www.answers.com/topic/natural-number n0 such that for all n > n0, |xn − L| < ε. Intuitively, this means that eventually all elements of the sequence get as close as we want to the limit, since the http://www.answers.com/topic/absolute-value |xn − L| is the distance between xn and L. Not every sequence has a limit; if it does, we call it convergent, otherwise divergent. One can show that a convergent sequence has only one limit. The limit of a sequence and the limit of a function are closely related. On one hand, the limit of a sequence is simply the limit at infinity of a function defined on http://www.answers.com/topic/natural-number. On the other hand, a limit of a function f at x, if it exists, is the same as the limit of the sequence xn = f(x + 1/n). * , where S is a http://www.answers.com/topic/scalar-multiplication. * , where b is a constant. The following rules are only valid if the limits on the righthand side exist and are finite. * * * * , if the denominator containing the limit does not equal zero If any of the limits in the righthand side is undefined or infinite, these rules do not necessarily work. For example, but is undefined. * * This rule uses http://www.answers.com/topic/derivative-disambiguation and has a conditional usage. (It can only be directly used on limits that "equal" 0/0 or ±∞/±∞. Other http://www.answers.com/topic/indeterminate-form require some algebraic manipulation usually involving setting the limit equal to y, taking the http://www.answers.com/topic/natural-logarithm of both sides, and then using http://www.answers.com/topic/l-h-pital-s-rule-2.) * For example: A short way to write the limit is . A short way to write the limit is . A short way to write the limit is . : Main article: http://www.answers.com/topic/net-in-business All of the above notions of limit can be unified and generalized to arbitrary http://www.answers.com/topic/topological-space-1 by introducing topological http://www.answers.com/topic/net-in-business and defining their limits. The article on nets elaborates on this. An alternative is the concept of limit for http://www.answers.com/topic/filter-mathematics on topological spaces. : Main article: http://www.answers.com/topic/limit-category-theory

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n. - grænse, maksimum, minimum, limitum, tolerance, grænseværdi

v. tr. - begrænse, indskrænke, limitere idioms: * over the limit over grænsen, over stregen * within limits inden for visse grænser Nederlands (Dutch)

limiet, grens, beperking, quota, paal en perk, (mv) grenzen, toppunt, het uiterste, begrenzen, beperken, limiteren Français (French)

n. - limite, limitation

v. tr. - limiter, se limiter à (faire) idioms: * be the limit dépasser les bornes * over the limit au-delà de la limite * within limits dans la limite de Deutsch (German)

n. - Grenzwert, Grenze, Beschränkung

v. - begrenzen, einschränken idioms: * be the limit [einfach] unmöglich sein * over the limit über dem Grenzwert * within limits innerhalb gewisser Grenzen Ελληνική (Greek)

n. - όριο, σύνορο, πέρας

v. - περιορίζω/-ομαι, θέτω όρια idioms: * over the limit πάνω από το όριο * within limits μέσα σε (λογικά) όρια Italiano (Italian)

limitare, limite idioms: * off limits vietato * over the limit oltre i limiti * within limits con moderazione Português (Portuguese)

n. - limite (m)

v. - limitar idioms: * off limits fora dos limites * over the limit acima do limite * within limits com moderação Русский (Russian)

ограничивать, служить границей, предел idioms: * off limits въезд запрещен, участие запрещено, вне границ * over the limit за пределами * within limits в пределах чего-л. Español (Spanish)

n. - límite

v. tr. - limitar idioms: * be the limit ser intolerable * over the limit exceder el límite * within limits dentro de ciertos límites Svenska (Swedish)

n. - gräns, yttersta gräns, (mat.) gränsvärde, limit

v. - begränsa, sätta (en) gräns för, inskränka, (hand.) limitera

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界限, 限制, 限度, 限定 idioms: * over the limit 超过限度 * within limits 适当地 中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))

n. - 界限, 限制, 限度

v. tr. - 限制, 限定 idioms: * over the limit 超過限度 * within limits 適當地 한국어 (Korean)

n. - 극한점, 한계, 경계선

v. tr. - ~에 한계를 설정하다, 한정하다, 제한하다 idioms: * over the limit 한계를 넘어 日本語 (Japanese)

n. - 限界, 制限, 境界, 我慢の極限

v. - 制限する idioms: * off limits 立ち入り禁止区域 * over the limit 限度外の * within limits 適度に العربيه (Arabic)

‏(الاسم) حد, نهايه, حد أقصى (فعل) حدد, قيد, حصر‏ עברית (Hebrew)

n. - ‮גבול, תחום, מגבלה‬

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Limitations are restrictions, curbs, restraints, constraints, controls, boundaries and checks that are placed on something. Also legally they are specified periods beyond which an action may be defeated or rites do not continue.

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it means you having a disadvantage or weakness in something or someone... hope i helped :)

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Limiting means holding back on the amount of something.

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