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Wikipedia has an article on: Constraint

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French constrainte, from verb constraindre (French: contraindre).

Noun

Singular constraint

Plural constraints

constraint (plural constraints)

  1. Something that constrains.
  2. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.

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