Restrict Definition

rĭ-strĭkt

restricted, restricting, restricts

verb

restricted, restricting, restricts

To keep within certain limits; put certain limitations on; confine.

Webster's New World

To prevent or prohibit beyond a certain limit or by restriction.

The law restricts the use of pesticides. The program restricts unauthorized users from accessing the data.

American Heritage

(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

If we restrict sine to , we can define its inverse.

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adjective

(obsolete) Restricted.

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Origin of Restrict

From Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict"), from re- (“back, again") + stringō (“press, tighten, compress").

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Latin restringere restrict- re- re- stringere to draw tight streig- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition