restrict
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restrict
- /ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
Rhymes with -ɪkt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
verb restricts · restricting · restricted
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
- To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain. If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.
adjective more restrict · most restrict
- Restricted.
