ALL meanings of restriction
re·stric·tion
R r - noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- noun restriction condition, limitation 1
- noun restriction act of restricting 1
- noun restriction rule, regulation 1
- noun restriction something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation. 1
- noun restriction the act of restricting. 1
- noun restriction the state of being restricted. 1
- countable noun restriction A restriction is an official rule that limits what you can do or that limits the amount or size of something. 0
- countable noun restriction You can refer to anything that limits what you can do as a restriction. 0
- noun restriction something that restricts; a restrictive measure, law, etc 0
- noun restriction the act of restricting or the state of being restricted 0
- noun restriction a condition that imposes a constraint on the possible values of a variable or on the domain of arguments of a function 0
- noun restriction a restricting or being restricted 0
- noun restriction something that restricts; limitation 0