Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
restrict (restricts, present participle restricting; past and past participle restricted)
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- If we restrict sine to [-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2], we can define its inverse.
- (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce
- French: restreindre
- German: beschränken
- Italian: restringere
- Portuguese: restringir
- Russian: ограни́чивать
- Spanish: restringir
restrict
- (obsolete) Restricted.
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