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(programming, mathematics)constraint - A Boolean relation, often an equality or ineqality relation, between the values of one or more mathematical variables (often two). E.g. x>3 is a constraint on x. constraint satisfaction attempts to assign values to variables so that all constraints are true.

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All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk easily and simply.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
I understood but too well the change in her manner, to greater kindness and quicker readiness in interpreting all my wishes, before others--to constraint and sadness, and nervous anxiety to absorb herself in the first occupation she could seize on, whenever we happened to be left together alone.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
And they are not to found otherwise, because men will always prove untrue to you unless they are kept honest by constraint.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
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