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limiting factor — n. an environmental factor that limits the growth or activities of an organism or that restricts the size of a population or its geographical range … English World dictionary
Limiting factor — A limiting factor or limiting resource is one that controls a process, such as organism growth or species population size or distribution. The availability of food, predation pressure, or availability of shelter are examples of factors that could … Wikipedia
limiting factor — principal budget factor A constraint in budgetary control and decision making, the existence of which prevents an organization from achieving higher levels of performance and profitability. On identifying the limiting factor, resources are… … Accounting dictionary
limiting factor — noun 1. : the factor that limits the reaction rate in any physiological process governed by many variables 2. : the environmental factor that is of predominant importance in restricting the size of a population lack of winter browse is a limiting … Useful english dictionary
limiting factor — Essential factor in the environment that is in short supply; thus limiting growth, some life process or population size … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
limiting factor — 1. Physiol. the slowest, therefore rate limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps. 2. Biol. an environmental factor that tends to limit population size. * * * … Universalium
limiting factor — any need such as food, habitat or spawning gravel that is in shortest supply with respect to all resources necessary to sustain life and thus limits the size or retards production of a fish population … Dictionary of ichthyology
Limiting factor — Ограничивающий фактор … Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии
Limiting reagent — In chemistry, the limiting reagent, also known as the limiting reactant , is the chemical that determines how far the reaction will go before the chemical in question gets used up, causing the reaction to stop. The chemical of which there are… … Wikipedia
limiting — adjective 1 preventing any improvement or increase in something: limiting factor: A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed. 2 informal preventing someone from developing and doing what they are interested in: The job… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
