Advanced English Word of the Day

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restricting
1. adj. serving to restrict
restrict
1. v. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
2. v. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
If we restrict sine to-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2, we can define its inverse.
3. adj. (obsolete) Restricted.

Example Sentences

Health advocates have pushed for laws restricting work-place smoking.

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