plural of constraint

Something that constrains; a restriction. / An irresistible force or compulsion. / The repression of one's feelings. / (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.

(archaic) constraining; compulsory

plural of budget constraint

plural of holonomic constraint

(economics) The condition that constrains expenditure to income (for a person) or the value of exports to imports (for a state)

(physics, classical mechanics) One of the equations/identities which define a variety within the configuration space, such that the state of the physical system being described is constrained to correspond only to points within that variety.

(statistics, computer science) a cluster of data points in a set conforming to the must-link and cannot-link constraints specified for each pair of data points

plural of constraint cluster

(phonology) In Optimality Theory, universal features that languages prefer to keep unviolated.