limiting factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflimitingandfactor
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limiting
adjective
uk/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
preventing you from having ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition oflimitingandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflimiting factor
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A secondlimitingfactoris the number of analyses performed.
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Nitrogen is thelimitingfactorfor most food crops.
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In this case, the disk system was thelimitingfactor.
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Importantly, time rather than distance was thelimitingfactor.
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For cocoa, however, phosphorus is thelimitingfactor.
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A nutritional substrate is not regarded as alimitingfactor.
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This can be alimitingfactorin drug compliance.
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Several authors point to water as a potentiallimitingfactorfor plant growth in tropical mountains.
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The firstlimitingfactorcan be seen in the number of individuals sampled.
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Sample size is not a majorlimitingfactorto computation, but the number of parameters is.
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The performance of both plants, however, changed when water became alimitingfactor.
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In many places throughout the world, water is alimitingfactoron development.
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As improved agronomic treatments were introduced, however, water availability appeared to be increasingly thelimitingfactor.
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Where this technique may be of particular use, is where time is alimitingfactor.
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It seems unlikely that they could represent alimitingfactorfor the bat population dynamics.
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In this case thelimitingfactoris the low surface density of the biotin ligands.
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This term is thelimitingfactorin the localization with greater number of photons.
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Dependence as alimitingfactorin the clinical use of minor tranquillizers.
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While latency was low, this was thelimitingfactoron the incremental time required per transaction.
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Thelimitingfactorin frequency response was the recording galvanometer of 2.3 second free period.
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In large bubbles of thick film being slowly drawn, gravity becomes alimitingfactor.
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We suggest that a nutritional substrate is not alimitingfactor.
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In reviewing the project, it is clear that funding was alimitingfactor.
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Thus, water availability is the most importantlimitingfactorat this site.
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Labour is thelimitingfactor.
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