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A device that stops something from moving
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constraint
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In engineering design , particularly in the use of computer-aided drafting and design , in the creation of 3D assemblies and multibody systems , the plural term " constraints " refers to demarcations of geometrical characteristics between two or more entities ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint" [syn: restraint ] a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" [syn: restraint ] the act of constraining; the threat or use ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "distress, oppression," from Old French constreinte "binding, constraint, compulsion" (Modern French contrainte ), fem. noun from constreint , past participle of constreindre , from Vulgar Latin *constrinctus , from Latin constrictus (see constrain ...
Usage examples of constraint.
I found that the hierarchical nature of musical time is a consequence of the constraint that musical rhythm should contain multiple regular beats, so there is no need to make specific assumptions about the existence and perception of hierarchy just to explain this feature of musical time.
The final coupling of Beatrice and Benedick is remarkably free of any constraints of social custom other than their serious and mutual investigation as to what it would be like to live together permanently as wife and husband.
As stated in the music theory of chords, there are some constraints on where notes in a chord are usually placed, and if you translate the notes by too many octaves then those constraints will be broken.
Contacting the deeper meaning is a liberation from the false and distorted surface meaning, and this liberation is experienced as type of freedom from a prior suffering or constraint.
He was the perfect bureaucrat, evasive, deskbound, a man who thought in terms of constraints and methodologies.
Isis finding a flyboy, defying even the constraints of geography and history.
If it is to be durable constant care will be required, for nature never gives up its rights and reasserts them when the constraint of man is withdrawn.
Out here, away from the constraints of society, the high seas will be our home.
Leonie went and Ruth, freed from the constraints of maternal care, worked even harder and felt even iller - and then it was time for the beginning of the summer term.
So what are the grounds for assuming that these forms of learning are subject to the same biological constraints as those which determine whether a chick learns to avoid a bead?
Stu Kauffman and his coworkers had shown that advanced organisms had complex internal constraints which made them more likely to fall off the fitness optima, and descend into the valleys.
Besides, a woman of my condition, if she be married, cannot hope that a rich lover will come and see her, while if she be alone she can receive visits without any constraint.
However, the United States countered that such a deadline was not part of Resolution 687 and would introduce artificial constraints into the inspections, something the Security Council had studiously avoided.
With this win under his belt and the new constraints on UNSCOM operations, things were quiet for several months.
Iraqi economy of most of the remaining constraints so that there would be no reason for any Iraqi to suffer from malnutrition or inadequate medicine.