constraint
IPA: kʌnstrˈeɪnt
noun
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- The repression of one's feelings.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
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Examples of "constraint" in Sentences
- The schedule was constraint.
- The budget line is the constraint.
- Usually, the programmer is the constraint.
- The only problem is the licensing constraint.
- Reproducibility of the standard is the constraint.
- The system is described by the means of constraints.
- The constraint is the practical time for the experiment.
- In the simulation, the constraint can shift to the Designer.
- The answer is practically certain to be metrical constraints.
- A principled exception of the coordinate structure constraint.
- You may discover, as I have, that in design, constraint is freedom.
- "Congestible" refers to goods that are nonrival for a certain amount, until a capacity constraint is reached.
- With the shift to the constitutional stage of politics, however, this constraint is at least partially removed.
- "Not having enough money [for the project] was the problem, the constraint from the beginning," explained Alejandro Aravena, Elemental's chief architect.
- For such goods, initial capital costs tend to be high, while the marginal cost of adding an additional user remains low until the capacity constraint is approached.
- But all of them can easily fire a round every second or two; and the main constraint is the time it takes to aim again, which means that practically speaking semiautomatics and revolvers have a comparable effective rate offire.
- The firm may well reorganize to have a higher capital labor ratio as a result, but total output will be lower because the firm's new budget constraint is below the initial budget constraint, and therefore, also below the prior isoquant.