Synonym: compel, force, press, urge. Antonym: free, liberate. Similar words: constraint, strain, construe, construct, demonstrate, demonstration, construction, constructing. Meaning: [kən'streɪn] 
v. 1. hold back 2. restrict.
v. 1. hold back 2. restrict. 
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61 It was concluded that the stemma equimultiple random select cross method could constrain the increments of inbreeding coefficient.
62 Now, there are suggestions the shortages may constrain economic growth too.
63 Academic institution and humanism value concept are the key factors to constrain the development of academic journals.
64 This study uses geochemistry tracing to constrain on provenance of bronzes from Heying archaeological site.
65 The improved PSO is then applied to optimal design of disk brake in order to minimize the brake time under the conditions of geometry constrain, intensity constrain and temperature constrain.
66 FDX.N), deemed an economic bellwether because it serves a wide range of industries, said higher costs would constrain 2011 earnings. FedEx shares slid 6 percent to $78.07.
67 The implicitness and incompleteness of consumer contracts, the constrain of information costs, and market monopolies give rise to the relatively weak contracting position of consumers.
68 If they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd - fellow society.
69 That would be good for housing markets, as low supply growth would continue to facilitate market clearing, but it would also constrain growth in output and employment.
70 Chronological assertions can constrain time value of one field based on the time of another field.
71 It will explore building a financial management system by which budget compilation, budget implementation, and budget supervision and review constrain and coordinate with each other.
72 Finally, a feasible direction to the question of angle steel truss's sectional optimizing which includes other constrains in addition to the stress constrain.
73 When there are several tolerance on one feature , the constrain relationship between each tolerance zone was established.
74 The constitution should not constrain us from articulating these political ideas.
75 Experiment results indicate that this measure is of great help to constrain the zero error and increase precision of instruments.
76 Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of copper minerals constrain that chalcocite is main and ore zoning form in sandstone copper deposits.
77 Within the J2EE application,[www.Sentencedict.com] you can define and name security roles and constrain resource access based on those roles.
78 These tastes and incomes constrain how the quantity demand will react to changes in price.
79 It's the capacity of those roads which is going to constrain the amount of travel by car that can take place.
80 The FSH operates at the protocol layer and does not provide the ability to constrain network resources such that no one application can monopolize the network stack.
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