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constraint

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The state of being restricted or prevented.

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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'