limiting


limiting (http://definr.com/limiting)

     adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining,
             constraining, constrictive, restricting]
     2: (grammar) 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]