restrict

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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/

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

• (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine (fig.)

Related terms

• restriction
• restraint
• restrain

Translations

• French: restreindre, limiter
• German: beschränken, begrenzen
• Italian: restringere, limitare
• Portuguese: restringir, limitar
• Russian: ограни́чивать
• Spanish: restringir, limitar

Adjective

restrict

1. (obsolete) Restricted.

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