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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: constraint n 1: the state of being constrained [syn: {restraint}] 2: a device that holds someone or something back from action [syn: {restraint}] 3: the act of constraining From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: constraintA {Boolean} relation, often an equality or {ineqality} relation, between the values of one or more variables (often two). E.g. x>3 is a constraint on x. {constraint satisfaction} is the process of assigning values to variables so that all constraints are true. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.constraints}. {FAQ (http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/archive/constraints/constraints.html)}. (1997-02-20)
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