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limiting factor
noun
- Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- Biology. an environmental factor that tends to limit population size.
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There's another limiting factor, which is that under the current tax code, debt forgiveness is taxable.
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Food supply probably is not a limiting factor to populations of Gastrophryne on the area.
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All these situations are characterized by providing abundant cover, a limiting factor for this woodrat.
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The development of synthetic foods, the use of algae and fungi, rules out famine as a limiting factor.
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Winter killing of the wood and catkins is probably the limiting factor in growing filberts in Western New York.
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In such cases, the deficiency of these gaseous food elements may become a limiting factor in plant growth.
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