Noun

(en noun)

The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

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.

He understood the exam material but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.

An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.

A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

''The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the 10 years limitation

Noun

(uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}

(countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Promotion and self-promotion , passage=One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.}}

(geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.

(geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.