Usually means: Boundary or restriction on capability.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word limitation:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. limitation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. limitation: Merriam-Webster
  3. limitation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. limitation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. limitation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. limitation: Vocabulary.com
  7. limitation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. limitation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. limitation: Dictionary.com
  10. limitation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Limitation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Limitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. limitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. limitation: Rhymezone
  15. limitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. limitation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. limitation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. limitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. limitation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. limitation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. limitation: Wordnik
  22. limitation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. limitation: Wiktionary
  24. limitation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. Limitation: Wordnik

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. limitation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. limitation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. limitation: Legal dictionary
  5. limitation: Financial dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. limitation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limitation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. limitation: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limitation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See limitational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
noun:  A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
noun:  An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
noun:  (law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

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