restriction

5 definitions found

restriction - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Restriction \Re*stric"tion\, n. [F. restriction, L. restrictio.]
     1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted;
        confinement within limits or bounds.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              This is to have the same restriction with all other
              recreations,that it be made a divertisement. --Giv.
                                                    of Tonque.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as,
        restrictions on trade.
        [1913 Webster]

restriction - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  restriction
      n 1: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am
           willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"
           [syn: restriction, limitation]
      2: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn:
         limitation, restriction]
      3: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by
         force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a
         focal area" [syn: restriction, confinement]

restriction - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  restriction
  
     A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities,
     and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work
     up enough nerve to describe it as a feature.  Often used
     (especially by marketroid types) to make it sound as though
     some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all
     along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints
     of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these
     claims are almost invariably false).
  
     Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever
     choosing a quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should
     make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1.  If you
     impose a limit of 17 items in a list, everyone will know it is
     a random number - on the other hand, a limit of 15 or 16
     suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based indexing in
     binary) and you will get less flamage for it.  Limits which
     are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

restriction - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  restriction
   n.
  
     A bug or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and
     which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough
     nerve to describe it as a feature. Often used (esp. by marketroid
     types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been
     intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by
  arcane
     technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly
     comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false).
  
     Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a
     quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a
     power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 107
  items
     in a list, everyone will know it is a random number -- on the other
     hand, a limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or
     1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less flamage for it.
     Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially
     suspect.
  

restriction - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "restriction":
     allowance, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, ban, bar, barring,
     blockade, blockage, blocking, boundary, bounds, boycott, brake,
     caging, cession, check, circumscription, clogging, closeness,
     closing up, closure, concession, condition, confinement,
     constraint, constriction, continence, control, cramp, cramping,
     crowdedness, curb, debarment, debarring, delay, demarcation,
     detainment, detention, discipline, embargo, exception, exclusion,
     exemption, extenuating circumstances, fixation, foot-dragging,
     grain of salt, grant, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hampering,
     hedge, hedging, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, impediment,
     impoundment, inadmissibility, incapaciousness, incommodiousness,
     inhibition, injunction, interference, interruption, let, limit,
     limitation, lockout, lockup, mental reservation, moderation,
     modification, narrow gauge, narrowing, narrowness, nearness,
     negativism, nonadmission, nuisance value, obstruction,
     obstructionism, occlusion, omission, opposition, penning,
     preclusion, prescription, prohibition, proscription, provision,
     proviso, qualification, rejection, relegation, repression,
     repudiation, reservation, resistance, restrain, restraint,
     restrictedness, retardation, retardment, salvo, setback,
     slenderness, special case, special treatment, specialness,
     specification, squeeze, stint, stipulation, straitness,
     stranglehold, strictness, stricture, suppression, taboo,
     tight squeeze, tightness, waiver