constraint
UK/kənˈstɹeɪnt/
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Australia/kənˈstɹæɪnt/
constraint noun: something that constrains; a restriction.
Noun
constraint (countable and uncountable, plural constraints)
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An engineer must recognize the difference between a constraint (to work within) and a problem (to be eliminated via resolution).
- Today’s electricity demand (65 EJ/a) is well covered by the range, but constraints may occur in the long run locally. Amongst large countries, Nigeria and India may need imports to meet electricity demand.2015, Quantifying a realistic
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- They confessed, but only under severe constraint.
- The repression of one's feelings.
- Although his blood so rose against this man, and his wrath so stirred within him, that he could have struck him dead, he put such fierce constraint upon himself that he passed him without a word or look. Yes, and he would have gone on, and not turned, though to resist the Devil who poured such hot...1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
- A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
constraint meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
constraint in Hindi
- mathematics: condition to a solution
- व्यवरोध vyavrodh
constraint in Tamil
- தடை, புறக்கட்டுப்பாடு, வற்புறுத்தல், விகாரப்படுகை, விகாரப்படுத்துகை, கட்டுப்பாடு
constraint in Urdu
- constraint, helplessness
- اضطرار iztirār
constraint in Bengali
- বিব্রতভাব, বাধ্যতা
More languagesFewer languages
- constraint in Malayalam
- പരിധി paridhi
- constraint in Kannada
- ನಿಯಮ, ನಿರ್ಬಂಧ, ಅಡೆತಡೆ, ಕಡ್ಡಾಯ
- constraint in Arabic
- متطلب
- constraint in Malay
- kekangan
Examples of constraint in a sentence
- Our economic growth model will eventually hit up against hard ecological constraints.
- Due to budget constraints, the company had to cut its expenses to the bone.
- We need to add a multicolumn constraint to the database.
Forms of constraint
| plural | constraints |
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Origin of constraint
From Middle English constreynt, constreynte, from Old French constreinte, past participle of constreindre (“to constrain”), from Latin cōnstringō (corresponding to the past participle cōnstrictus).
Words formed from constraint
- budget constraint
- constraint cluster
- constrainted
- constraintive
- constraintless
- constraint logic programming
- constraint satisfaction
- Hamiltonian constraint
- holonomic constraint
- integrity constraint
- liquidity constraint
- markedness constraint
- metaconstraint
- multiconstraint
- nonconstraint
- subconstraint
- theory of constraints
- time constraint
- unconstraint
- unconstrainted
Phrases with constraint
Words that rhyme with constraint
Questions about constraint
- What does constraint mean?
- Constraint means something that constrains; a restriction.
- What is constraint in Hindi?
- Constraint in Hindi is व्यवरोध (vyavrodh). See Constraint meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is constraint?
- Constraint is a noun.
- How do you pronounce constraint?
- Constraint is pronounced /kənˈstɹeɪnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of constraint?
- The plural of constraint is constraints.
Words near constraint in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: constraint (page history and authors); constraint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اضطرار (Urdu) (page history and authors); constraint (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പരിധി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); constraint (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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