constraints
- 1Plural of constraint.
The engineers worked within strict safety constraints throughout the build.
Legal and ethical constraints shaped every decision the board made.
Note
A regular plural, available only to the countable uses of constraint. Counted, a constraint is one limiting condition, so the plural lists several: the constraints a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy, or those that maintain a database's integrity. Uncountable, the noun names repression of feeling or a compulsion and stays singular: a person speaking without constraint is unguarded, while a design without constraints simply has no limits.
constraints is a form of constraint
constraint, noun: A restriction or limitation that holds something within certain bounds. Full entry
- Forms
- constraintconstraints plural
- Spelling
- constraint → constraints: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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