restrict
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō ("draw back tightly; restrain, restrict"), from re- ("back, again") + stringō ("press, tighten, compress").
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
restrict (restricts, present participle restricting; simple 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 \left[-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2\right], we can define its inverse.
- (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine (fig.)
- French: restreindre, limiter
- German: beschränken, begrenzen
- Italian: restringere, limitare
- Portuguese: restringir, limitar
- Russian: ограни́чивать
- Spanish: restringir, limitar
restrict
- (obsolete) Restricted.
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