Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Limiter \Lim"it*er\ (-[~e]r), n.
   1. One who, or that which, limits.

   2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose
      duty was limited to a certain district. [Formerly written
      also {limitour}.] --Chaucer.

            A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his
            limitation, preached many times, and had but one
            sermon at all times.                  --Latimer.

Source : WordNet®

limiter
     n : (electronics) an nonlinear electronic circuit whose output
         is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous
         amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a
         waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion"
         [syn: {clipper}]