limited applicability
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitedandapplicability
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limited
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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applicability
noun[U]
uk/əˌplɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌæ.plɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of affecting or relating to a person ...
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(Definition oflimitedandapplicabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Of necessity, their work is oflimitedapplicabilitybecause of the strict assumptions needed to make the problem tractable.
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Due to its morelimitedapplicability, and its resulting lower complexity, the transformation can be more effectively and easily controlled.
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It should be noted, however, that questionnaire assessment may be oflimitedapplicabilitywith those palliative care patients who have difficulty reading.
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This is highly restrictive and is oflimitedapplicability.
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Consequently, the standard concept of type isomorphisms haslimitedapplicabilityin the context of proof assistants.
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However, these early studies have been criticized as they used experimental animal models that hadlimitedapplicabilityto clinical practice in pregnant humans.
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Both of these will havelimitedapplicabilityto real systems as they demand that the free boundary makes a specific angle with the grain (fixed) boundary.
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However, without further specification and more precise relation to variables on a behavior or psychological level, this approach seems to havelimitedapplicabilityfor designing meaningful studies of brain functioning.
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A move towards more shared ownership, therefore, will have onlylimitedapplicabilityin trying to solve our housing crisis.
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However, this result requires the channels to be perfect and instantaneous, and hence is oflimitedapplicability.
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Therefore, ad vitam aut culpum has alimitedapplicabilitywhich does protect an office from dismissal if they are incompetent.
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Academics have criticised it, however, both for the economic damage such a doctrine could cause and for itslimitedapplicability.
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This process may havelimitedapplicabilitybecause it is said to incur the loss of butanes and heavier hydrocarbons.
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Using it as a guide to the time of death, however, is theoretically unsound and presents many practical difficulties, although it may havelimitedapplicabilityin some exceptional instances.
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This assumption has verylimitedapplicability.
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