restriction
[ U ]formal
unnatural behaviour that is sometimes the result of forcing yourself to act in a particular way: 拘束；局促
She tried to appear friendly, but her constraint was obvious.她尽力显得友好，可是显然很拘束。
 under constraintformal
If you do something under constraint, you do it only because you have been forced to: 被强迫地；迫于压力；在强制下
They confessed, but only under severe constraint.他们迫于巨大的压力才说出了真相。

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Limiting and restricting
anti-libertarian
armlock
boundary
box someone out
box someone/something in
cripplingly
crowd
curb
curtail
curtailment
keep (herself) to herselfidiom
limit
limitation
limitative
limiting
suffocatingly
tempered
tie someone down
tie someone up
uncrippled

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constraint | American Dictionary

constraint
noun[ C ]
us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that limits the range of a person’s actions or freedom:
In Egypt, the biggest constraint on new agricultural production is water.

constraint | Business English

constraint
noun[ C ]
uk /kənˈstreɪnt/us
something that controls what you can do by keeping you within particular limits:
The constraint of distribution costs remains the severest of all.
budget/financial, etc. constraintsThis growth in revenue may soften the government's budget constraints and allow it to increase public spending.
big/major/serious constraintThey believe that the new legislation will remove a major constraint to economic expansion.
a constraint on/to sthThe cost of capital is an important constraint on business activity.
place/put a constraint on sthSome external factors placed constraints on the scope of the work that could be undertaken.
Among those conditions was a five-year time constraint. (= time limit)

Examples of constraint

constraint
The resulting tool will allow specifying relations between groups and participants, and different interaction types and constraints over interactions.
In this work, the environment is characterised by two negotiators, time constraints, deadlines, full information and the possibility of opting out.
The problem can be constrained further by including constraints based on general design heuristics.
The capacity to use marked forms is a developmental step, but their use largely depends on contextual and pragmatic constraints.
Evaluation of the lambda building block requires additional constraints between the monad and value types.
However, further analysis of constraints on fertiliser use is necessary.
In particular, haptic perception is important to recognize local and dynamic properties of the environment and the physical constraints imposed on the end-effector.
Figures 10 and 11 show the response of the contact area position constraints.
However, state variables are not independent; they are subject to the two contact area constraints between the soft fingertips and the rigid object surface.
All the manipulators of this family have independent constraints and three equal legs.
In fact, we noticed that a large value of rk tends to well ensure constraints satisfaction to the detriment of cost minimality and vice versa.
However, the application of these techniques involves several constraints to the reliability and cost of the systems.
The calculation of these functions is based on the objective parameters, and takes into account the constraints acting on the robot.
In order to compute the obstacle constraints, it is necessary to know the distance between the robot and the obstacles.
The whole trajectory from the beginning of the movement to its end must satisfy given acceleration and/or velocity constraints.
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Collocations withconstraint

constraint

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additional constraint
Sympathy supplies the additionalconstraint interaction needed to explain these markedness violations.
artificial constraint
Specifying a desired velocity along an unconstrained direction and/or a desired force along a constrained direction gives rise to an artificial constraint.
budget constraint
To this end, we assume that either government spending or direct taxes are endogenous and adjust to keep the budgetconstraint balanced.
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