home/glossary/constraint

constraint

nounid 1978·updated May 9, 2026
candidate

The state of being restricted or prevented.

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

alternatephrasing
Constraint
plural
constraints
possessive
constraint's
pluralpossessive
constraints'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
The state of being restricted or prevented.
Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary1 senseview framework →
§1
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 Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
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.

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.