Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by constraint, especially in opposition to nature; manifesting constraint, especially internal constraint or repression of emotion: as, a constrained voice; a constrained manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
constrain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking spontaneity; not natural
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Anyone building to the notion that processor and download times are severely constrained is building to yesterdays specs and not tomorrows. blog comments powered by Disqus
Services for mobile apps that shouldn’t need services… : #comments 2008
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It seems like you still got some pretty good headroom and execution on the DRAM spite, specifically with Inotera, but it sounds like your near term constrained in terms of your capacity, particularly, 34 nanometer for NAND.
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(Q&A) It seems like you've still got some pretty good headroom and execution on the DRAM spots, specifically with Inotera, but it sounds like you're near-term constrained in terms of your capacity, particularly at 34 nanometer for NAND.
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On the other hand, that thing is necessary, or rather constrained, which is determined by something external to itself to a fixed and definite method of existence or action.
The Ethics 2007
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The logic produced by this operation, called constrained fibring, starts by considering two logics
Combining Logics Carnielli, Walter 2007
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We have literally specs of gasoline that cannot be used in one section of the country that can be used in another and that creates these little pockets of what I would call constrained supply.
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It's pretty easy for someone to sit around and call the constrained set of opportunities open to dwarfism "normal", but it's a plain fact that it simply isn't.
Is it wrong for a disabled parent... Ann Althouse 2006
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They manifestly move, and if they have no proper movement they must move by constraint: and the constrained is the same as the unnatural.
On the Heavens 2002
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As the introductory discussion in my review made clear, the thesis of the book is that what Sowell calls the constrained and unconstrained visions are the central unifying ideas of two opposing traditions in political thinking which extend from Adam Smith and William Godwin in the eighteenth century down to Friedman and Hayek and Rawls and Dworkin in our own day.
'Down from Liberalism': An Exchange Sowell, Thomas 1988
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Users can also pursue what Brill calls "constrained serendipity" by typing terms into a search box or picking categories through a drop-down menu.
unknown title 2011
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