restricts

Verb

restrict (third-person singular simple present 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.

   Synonyms:

   limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce, quarantine

2. (specifically) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
   • If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.

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