constraint
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
The state of being restricted or prevented.
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Senses
Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary
A limitation or implied requirement that constrains the design solution or implementation of the systems engineering process and is not changeable by the enterprise
Glossary of Statistical Terms
Specification of what may be contained in a data or metadata set in terms of the content or, for data only, in terms of the set of key combinations to which specific attributes (defined by the data structure) may be attached.
Wordset Dictionary
the act of constraining
Wordset Dictionary
a device that retards something's motion
Wordset Dictionary
the state of being physically constrained
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- restraint
- alternatephrasing
- Constraint
- plural
- constraints
- possessive
- constraint's
- pluralpossessive
- constraints'