restrict
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
Example
“After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.”
Other meanings
To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
“If we restrict sine to \left[-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2\right], we can define its inverse.”
Related words
- derestrict
- overrestrict
- restrictable
- restrictase
- restrictee
- restrictive
- restrictor
- restrictory
- unrestrict
Word history
From Latin "restrictus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “restrict” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.