restrict
/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ verb B1- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine · After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
- To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain. · If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.
He/she/it restricts · Past restricted · Past participle restricted · -ing form restricting
Verb forms
- Base form
- restrict
- He/she/it
- restricts
- Past
- restricted
- Past participle
- restricted
- -ing form
- restricting
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