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Definition of Constraint

Constraint
Constraint Con*straint", n. [OF. constrainte, F. constrainte.] The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. --Spenser. Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came. --Dryden. Syn: Compulsion; violence; necessity; urgency. Usage: Constraint, Compulsion. Constraint implies strong binding force; as, the constraint of necessity; the constraint of fear. Compulsion implies the exertion of some urgent impelling force; as, driven by compulsion. The former prevents us from acting agreeably to our wishes; the latter forces us to act contrary to our will. Compulsion is always produced by some active agent; a constraint may be laid upon us by the forms of civil society, or by other outward circumstances. --Crabb.

Meaning of Constraint from wikipedia

- Look up constraint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Constraint may refer to: Constraint (computer-aided design), a demarcation of geometrical characteristics...
- very small number of constraints. There is always at least one constraint, and TOC uses a focusing process to identify the constraint and restructure the...
- In economics, a budget constraint represents all the combinations of goods and services that a consumer may purchase given current prices within their...
- types of constraints: holonomic and non-holonomic. First class constraints and second class constraints Primary constraints, secondary constraints, tertiary...
- thorough discussion of various forms of constraint (internal constraint, external constraint, total constraint) with application to pattern recognition...
- In classical mechanics, holonomic constraints are relations between the position variables (and possibly time) that can be expressed in the following...
- research. In constraint programming, users declaratively state the constraints on the feasible solutions for a set of decision variables. Constraints differ...
- In constraint satisfaction research in artificial intelligence and operations research, constraint graphs and hypergraphs are used to represent relations...
- constraints—primarily equality constraints, inequality constraints, and integer constraints. The set of candidate solutions that satisfy all constraints is called the...
- In law, time constraints are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends...