restrict

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   place limits on (extent or access)

   restrict the use of this parking lot

2. 2
   verb

   To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

   After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   make more specific

5. 5
   verb

   place restrictions on

6. 6
   verb

   place under restrictions

7. 7
   adj

   Restricted.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.