constraint

English

WOTD – 10 January 2016

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈstɹeɪnt/
• Rhymes: -eɪnt

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French constrainte, from verb constraindre (French: contraindre), ultimately from Latin constringo.

Noun

constraint (plural constraints)

1. Something that constrains; a restriction.
2. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
3. (databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

Derived terms

• constraint satisfaction

Related terms

• restraint

Translations

something that constrains

• Arabic: متطلب‏‎
• Bulgarian: принуда (bg) f (prinuda)
• Catalan: restricció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約束 (zh), 约束 (zh) (yuēshù)

• Dutch: beperking (nl) f, inperking (nl) f, begrenzing (nl) f
• Finnish: rajoitus (fi), raja (fi), rajoite (fi)
• French: contrainte (fr) f
• Galician: restrición (gl) f
• German: Einschränkung (de) f, Beschränkung (de) f
• Icelandic: ófrelsi n
• Italian: vincolo (it) m, costrizione (it) f
• Japanese: 束縛 (ja) (そくばく, sokubaku)

• Malay: kekangan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: begrensning (no) m, f

• Polish: ograniczenie (pl) n, przymus (pl) m
• Portuguese: coação (pt) f, compulsão (pt) f
• Romanian: constrângere (ro) f, obligație (ro) f
• Russian: ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ograničénje n, усиљеност f

  Roman: ograničénje (sh) n, usiljenost (sh) f

• Spanish: constreñimiento m, limitación (es) f, restricción (es) f
• Turkish: kısıtlama (tr), sınırlama (tr), tahdit (tr)

mathematics: condition to a solution

• Dutch: beperking (nl) f, randvoorwaarde (nl) f
• Italian: vincolo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beskrankning m, f

• Polish: ograniczenie (pl) n, warunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: restrição (pt) f
• Russian: ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
• Spanish: restricción (es) f

Further reading

• constraint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• in contrast