constraint

English

WOTD – 10 January 2016

From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French constrainte, past participle of the verb constraindre (French: contraindre), ultimately from Latin constringo (corresponding to the past participle constrictus).

constraint (plural constraints)

Something that constrains; a restriction.
(mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
(databases) A method that maintains database integrity.

something that constrains

Arabic: متطلب‎‎
Bulgarian: принуда (bg) f (prinuda)
Catalan: restricció f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 約束 (zh), 约束 (zh) (yuēshù)
Dutch: beperking (nl) f, inperking (nl) f, begrenzing (nl) f
Finnish: rajoitus (fi), raja (fi), rajoite (fi)
French: contrainte (fr) f
Galician: restrición (gl) f
German: Einschränkung (de) f, Beschränkung (de) f, Restriktion (de) f, Zwang (de) m, Hemmnis (de) n, Auflage (de) f, Bedingung (de) f, Nötigung (de) f, Befangenheit (de) f, Verlegenheit (de) f, Geziertheit f, Zurückhaltung (de) f, Randbedingung (de) f, Nebenbedingung f
Icelandic: ófrelsi n
Italian: vincolo (it) m, costrizione (it) f
Japanese: 束縛 (ja) (そくばく, sokubaku)

Malay: kekangan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: begrensning (no) m, f
Polish: ograniczenie (pl) n, przymus (pl) m
Portuguese: coação (pt) f, compulsão (pt) f
Romanian: constrângere (ro) f, obligație (ro) f
Russian: ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
Scottish Gaelic: èiginn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ograničénje n, усиљеност f

Roman: ograničénje (sh) n, usiljenost (sh) f
Spanish: constreñimiento m, limitación (es) f, restricción (es) f
Turkish: kısıtlama (tr), sınırlama (tr), tahdit (tr)

mathematics: condition to a solution

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