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restriction

[ri-strik-shuhn]

noun

something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.

the state of being restricted.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin restrictiōn- (stem of restrictiō), equivalent to Latin restrict(us) (see restrict) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

non·re·stric·tion, noun

o·ver·re·stric·tion, noun

pre·re·stric·tion, noun

pro·re·stric·tion, adjective

self-re·stric·tion, noun

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su·per·re·stric·tion, noun

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Synonyms
1. rule, provision, reservation, restraint.

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Example Sentences

Corporations were free to ignore the restriction if they were prepared to accept the tax consequences.

Congress is about to lift a restriction that prevents some online-education programs from offering federal student aid.

Tobacco companies are routinely threatened with every tax and sales restriction going, and are perennial fixtures on the list.

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Corporations were free to ignore the restriction if they were prepared to accept the tax consequences.

Congress is about to lift a restriction that prevents some online-education programs from offering federal student aid.

Tobacco companies are routinely threatened with every tax and sales restriction going, and are perennial fixtures on the list.

Insulin signaling ties into the best-known method for increasing lifespan-caloric restriction.

Worm study fingers gene that links dietary restriction to increased lifespan.

Here, the biggest restriction is going to be your budget.

But the idea of any further restriction on the strikes is laughable.

Such a restriction would not only be capricious, but also eminently unfair.

His restriction was on the clergy, not on individual citizens discussing faith as they saw fit.

Bacteria do not make restriction enzymes out of the goodness of their hearts, nor to help catch criminals, of course.

The only restriction was an inability to self-nominate.

Bodies adapt to calorie restriction and burn less by slowing metabolism.

The only restriction is that applications must be built with standard web technologies.

Sleep restriction limits your time in bed, therefore increasing your body's drive to sleep.

But in the eyes of some students, such a restriction contradicts the entire point of the site.

Nigeria's media is one of the freest on the continent and thousands of civil organisations operate without restriction.

Any ideas about the best hikes given this restriction would be appreciated.

China has implemented the mild restriction to family births, which may be effective over a period of decades.

Longo has studied the effects of caloric restriction on cell function.

The major problem with using graduate students to evaluate this theoretical perspective is restriction of range.

They do not want any restriction on such technologies to get in their way.

There should be no public health money wasted on sodium restriction.

However choices not to pay will lead to certain restriction that will limit their quality of life.

America, over its restriction of political and human rights.

For many jet-setters, this restriction is a career-buster.

Restriction enzymes cut what is being tested in precisely defined and predictable places.

But the property also comes with an unusual restriction.

The restriction on private autos in the canyon has improved the visitor experience immeasurably".

The decision could add another restriction on prayer in.

Population restriction is a combination of population and area of occupancy.

But a plastic that vanishes might make that restriction disappear.

The organization also advocates a complete cell phone ban for novice drivers-a restriction that is.

The sound is caused by water's flowing rapidly through a narrow restriction or past an obstruction.

The time restriction negatively impacted my score on verbal, which was too bad.

Your internet bandwidth may not be the only restriction you'll have to deal with.

It is not yet known if caloric restriction would increase people's life span but preliminary trials with monkeys look promising.

If a plan already allows loans, there might not be any restriction on what a person can buy with the funds.

Shanghai is more enlightened, allowing former work-unit homes to be sold on without restriction.

While a paper book can't spare space to print everything twice, there is no such restriction in an application.

The likely consequence of severe and prolonged environmental restriction and social isolation is psychiatric illness.

It certainly would have nothing to do with quality, and everything to do with political powerbrokering for restriction of trade.

Now there have been reports that this restriction has been dropped.

The origins of this restriction shouldn't surprise anyone.

But what the deed restriction says, and whether the buyer is obliged to abide by it, are entirely separate matters.

While to-invest properties would not have any such restriction on monetasitation yet would also be easily foreclosed upon.

Anaphylactic shock is a life-threatening allergic reaction that causes restriction of the airways and other symptoms.

Intentional restriction to one point-of-view is indoctrination and clearly demonstrates intolerance.

He contends that the freedom to tinker with and improve tools essentially without restriction is the best route to efficiency.

There has been, is and will continue to be political restriction of supply.

Yes, there is an artificial restriction of the supply of attorneys at the top firms.

Well, a restriction on the flow of capital is a restriction on the flow of capital.

The low calorie fake fat rats gained more weight when the calorie restriction was removed.

Its should be supported by the system with out restriction.

To return to my argument, a restriction on corporate spending on advertising in no way restricts individual freedom of speech.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

restriction (rɪˈstrɪkʃən)

—n
1.	something that restricts; a restrictive measure, law, etc
2.	the act of restricting or the state of being restricted
3.	logic, maths a condition that imposes a constraint on the possible values of a variable or on the domain of arguments of a function

re'strictionist

—n, —*adj*

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Word Origin & History

restriction

c.1412, from L.L. restrictionem (nom. restrictio) "limitation," from L. restrictus, pp. of restringere "restrict, bind fast, restrain," from re- "back" + stringere "draw tight" (see strain (v.)). Restrict (v.) is attested from 1535; regarded 18c. as a Scottishism. Restricted

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"limited" is attested from 1830; of documents, etc., "secret, not for public release" it is recorded from 1944. In U.S., restricted was a euphemism for "off-limits to Jews" (1947).

Manager: "I'm sorry, Mr. Marx, but we can't let you use the pool; this country club is restricted."
Groucho: "Well, my daughter's only half-Jewish; could she go in up to her knees?"

Restrictive is attested from c.1400.

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Computing Dictionary

restriction definition

A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a feature. Often used (especially by marketroid types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false).
Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 17 items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number - on the other hand, a limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less flamage for it. Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
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