restrict
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/
Verb

restrict (restricts, present participle restricting; simple past and past participle restricted)

  1. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
    After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
  2. (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.
Synonyms Related terms Translations Adjective

restrict

  1. (obsolete) Restricted.



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