Limitation vs Ceiling - What's the difference?
limitation | ceiling |
The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.
A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 The upper limit of an object or action.
(aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
(mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
(nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
As nouns the difference between limitation and ceiling
is that limitation is the act of limiting or the state of being limited while ceiling is the surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.As a verb ceiling is
.limitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
- He understood the exam material but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.
- ''The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the 10 years limitation
Derived terms
* limitationional * statute of limitationAntonyms
* limitelessnessceiling
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceiling ed, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}