constraint
Noun
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The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.
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the car did not have proper restraints fitted
dogs should be kept under restraint
58% of firms in Burkina Faso identified roads as major business constraint, maintenance and rehabilitation needs of the main road network are said to be underfunded.
A constraint of rotary engines is the need to locate the spark plug outside the combustion chamber to enable the rotor to sweep past.
A geometry constraint engine may also be employed to manage the associative relationships between geometry, such as wireframe geometry in a sketch or components in an assembly.
Although this constraint has a more global character than constraints on free will that follow from the standard, local laws of physics, it is not obvious to us that this constraint is more severe than those imposed by standard physical law.