rate limiting

基本解释

The results indicated that interfacial charge transfer may be the rate limiting step.
分析表明界面的电荷转移是反应的速度控制步。
The scientists' next project will include analyzing each stage of the process in detail to find the rate-limiting steps.
科学家下一步的项目将包括详细分析处理的每个阶段，从而发现限制氢气产生率的步骤。
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According to the basic definition of describing function, we analyse the frequency character of typical non linear rate limiting element in modern flight control system.
针对在现代飞行控制系统中存在的典型非线性速率限制环节，从描述函数的基本定义出发分析了其频率特性；

This is one of the merits in such an all-inorganic system while some conventional systems cannot follow the light power in general because of their internal or external rate-limiting processes in the complex structures.
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Based on these rates of growth, Norton argued that giving the same total dose of chemotherapy over a shorter period of time would boost the cure rate by limiting the time tumors could regrow between treatments.
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This means these workers will probably return to the labor market as the economy improves, limiting that rate at which unemployment can fall.
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