limitations

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Thanks to technical limitations from it's feature set it records every movement, change, and action forever in the document.

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The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of limitations gathered in one view.

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for limitations.

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.

Example sentences

Thanks to technical limitations from it's feature set it records every movement, change, and action forever in the document.

Regarding the actual legality of such a suit, doesn't some ind of statute of limitations apply here?

But any tree-like structure used as a description of actual reality runs into its limitations very quickly.

S3 is probably one of the most successful examples of NoSQL, and its very limitations are crucial to its success.

Newsflash: some forms of information exchange have limitations that prevent them from being useful for every single possible aspect of communication.

You might as well have pointed out the performance limitations of Ruby too.

Of course, you could feel bad if past technology limitations made you special, like silent film actors did when they lost their stardom.

As for the limitations of Triton and the divergences from Docker, we are very explicit about them[2].

Most NoSQL datastores swap limitations in one area for advances in another.

Seemed like a great way to highlight the limitations of patterns.

I read this article at the same time as this one [1] this morning, about the powers and limitations of content platforms.

I see no fundamental difficulty besides physical limitations to recreate other literals.

Quote examples

Yes, there are limitations (e.g., missing support for "docker build"), but what is there is production-grade -- and we're busily working on filling in the gaps.

Possibly for a reason.) " By the way, [1] is an entertaining post with some information, while [2] is a paper from 'stralia called, "Limitations of the See-and-Avoid Principle".