What's the difference between illimitable and limitation?

Illimitable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
  • (2) They hit hard, as if their aim was to establish an "illimitable dominion over all".
  • (3) Aphasias, interpreted in the beginnings as anatomically localized well defined disturbances of function, are now seen both anatomically and functionally, as a process with indistinct and mixed boundarie related to other equally illimited and indistinct functions.
  • (4) What illimitable possibilities of achievement and of excellence!

Limitation


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
  • (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
  • (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
  • (v. t.) A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
  • (v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
  • (v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
  • (v. t.) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
  • (2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
  • (3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
  • (7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
  • (9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
  • (10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
  • (14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
  • (18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
  • (19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
  • (20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.