Usually means: Limitation or restriction on something.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word constraint:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. constraint: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. constraint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. constraint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. constraint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. constraint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Constraint, constraint: Wordnik
  7. constraint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. constraint: Wiktionary
  9. constraint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. constraint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. constraint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Constraint, constraint: Dictionary.com
  13. constraint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Constraint (classical mechanics), Constraint (computational chemistry), Constraint (computer-aided design), Constraint (database), Constraint (information theory), Constraint (mathematics), Constraint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Constraint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. constraint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. constraint: Rhymezone
  18. Constraint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. constraint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. constraint: Free Dictionary
  21. constraint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. constraint: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONSTRAINT: Accounting Glossary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Constraint (disambiguation), constraint: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. constraint: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Constraint: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Constraint (disambiguation), Constraint (mathematics), constraint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Constraint: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Something that constrains; a restriction.
noun:  An irresistible force or compulsion.
noun:  The repression of one's feelings.
noun:  (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
noun:  (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.

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