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restrict

verb
/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from restrictus

Definitions

  1. To restrain within boundaries

    To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

    • After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
    • It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.

  2. 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.

  3. Restricted.

The neighborhood

Derived

derestrict, overrestrict, restrictable, restrictase, restrictee, restrictive, restrictor, restrictory, unrestrict

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at restrict. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at restrict. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at restrict

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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