limitation
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
limitation
- /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.
noun limitations
- 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.
- 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 l
- 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 ten-year limitation.
