limiting case

collocation in English

meaningsoflimitingandcase

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limiting
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪŋ/
us
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
preventing you from having ...
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case
noun
uk
/keɪs/
us
/keɪs/
a particular situation or example ...
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(Definition oflimitingandcasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We may call this confinement regime the quasistatic one (since it contains the equilibrium with v l 0 as alimitingcase).
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In thelimitingcase, this barrier coincides in height with the potential barrier for the electrons going away toward the anode.
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In thelimitingcaseof a dense plasma, when 1,2 simplified.
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A very convenient non-standard method for handling the singular perturbation problems for anylimitingcasewill be presented.
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In thislimitingcase, is lowered to pi, making the eigenfrequency significantly !
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It is not difficult to calculate x distributions of other ensemble averages in the presentlimitingcase.
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Usually it is not possible to classify the leaky waves by a single driving mechanism, except in the neighbourhood of alimitingcase.
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Note that in thelimitingcaseonly the first and last columns contain non-zero values.
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We will explicitly suppose the connectivity to be finite but, for practical purposes, infinite connectivity may be regarded as alimitingcase.
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Indeed, the ideal fibre-reinforced fluid may be regarded as a special andlimitingcaseof a liquid crystal as described by continuum theory.
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Thelimitingcaseis that in which the probability distribution puts all the probability weight on one strategy vector.
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Though this is probably unrealistic, it does provide alimitingcasethat can be solved analytically for weak nonlinearity.
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There is little effect on the velocity except in thelimitingcaseof frozen flow.
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As outlined below, however, cyclic steps are closely tied to antidunes, and in fact represent a nonlinear finite-amplitudelimitingcase.
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This is well exemplified by alimitingcase: pairings in which a transgressive term has no independent meaning except as a transgressive designation.
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Either scenario is alimitingcaseof a true lamella, in which various physical effects compete to render the surfaces partially mobile.
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Some analytic results can be obtained for thelimitingcaseof a shallow gradient.
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