Definition of Constrains. Meaning of Constrains. Synonyms of Constrains

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Definition of Constrains

Constrain
Constrain Con*strain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Constrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Constraining.] [OF. constraindre, F. contrainde, L. constringere; con- + stringere to draw tight. See Strain, and. cf. Constrict, Constringe.] 1. To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe. He binds in chains The drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains. --Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with cold. --Dryden. 2. To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. --Gay. 3. To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. My sire in caves constrains the winds. --Dryden. 4. To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige. The love of Christ constraineth us. --2. Cor. v. 14. I was constrained to appeal unto C[ae]sar. --Acts xxviii. 19. 5. To violate; to ravish. [Obs.] --Shak. 6. To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice. Syn: To compel; force; drive; impel; urge; press.

Meaning of Constrains from wikipedia

- Look up constraint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Constraint may refer to: Constraint (computer-aided design), a demarcation of geometrical characteristics...
- Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF) is an extension of shortest path algorithms. The path computed using CSPF is a shortest path fulfilling a set of...
- Kinematic coupling describes fixtures designed to exactly constrain the part in question, providing precision and certainty of location. A canonical example...
- According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term suggests "noble ancestry constrains to honourable behaviour; privilege entails responsibility." The Dictionnaire...
- The conformal bootstrap is a non-perturbative mathematical method to constrain and solve conformal field theories, i.e. models of particle physics or...
- graph in geographic space, describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow. Examples include but are not limited to road networks...
- invariant used for constraining objects of a class. Methods of the class should preserve the invariant. The class invariant constrains the state stored...
- kinematic pair used frequently in mechanisms and machines. The joint constrains the motion of two bodies to pure rotation along a common axis. The joint...
- Sinusoidal standing waves in a box that constrains the end points to be nodes will have an integer number of half wavelengths ****ing in the box....
- A prismatic joint is a one-degree-of-freedom kinematic pair which constrains the motion of two bodies to sliding along a common axis, without rotation;...