restrict

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English

Etymology

From Latin perfect passive participle restrictus, from verb restringere, from prefix re- again, + verb stringere.

Pronunciation

Verb

to restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)

  1. To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
  2. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
    If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.

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