Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Limited}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Limiting}.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr.
   limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E.
   eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.]
   To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate,
   circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit
   the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to
   limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of
   a word.

   {Limiting parallels} (Astron.), those parallels of latitude
      between which only an occultation of a star or planet by
      the moon, in a given case, can occur.

Source : WordNet®

limiting
     adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: {confining},
             {constraining}, {constrictive}, {restricting}]
     2: strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or
        phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of
        the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the
        list to only those particular ones defined by the clause"
     n : the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies
         the meaning of the phrase [syn: {modification}, {qualifying}]