restrict
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin perfect passive participle restrictus, from verb restringere, from prefix re- again, + verb stringere.
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- Rhymes: -ɪkt
[edit] Verb
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to restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)
- To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- If we restrict sine to
![[-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/b/6/5b612f4267ef6b44e6d75a12f3ad32bc.png)
, we can define its inverse.
- If we restrict sine to
[edit] Translations
to restrain within bounds
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to consider (a function) as defined on a smaller domain
