restrict

limiter, restreindre

Limiter ce qu’une personne peut faire ou la quantité autorisée de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To limit what someone can do, or how much of something is allowed.

• The rules restrict parking here.
• They restricted access to staff members.
• Does the injury restrict your movement?

Comment l'utiliser : restrict something to someone/something (They restrict entry to ticket holders.); restrict yourself to something (I restricted myself to one slice of cake.)

Synonymes : limit, control, constrain

Contraires : allow

Expressions courantes : restrict access, restrict movement, restrict something to

restreindre

N’utiliser une fonction mathématique que pour un ensemble plus petit de ses valeurs d’entrée possibles.

En anglais simple : To use a mathematical function only for a smaller set of its possible input values.

• We restrict the function to positive inputs.
• She restricted the domain to a closed interval.
• Can we restrict this function to integers?

Comment l'utiliser : restrict a function to something (We restrict the function to values between zero and one.)

Expressions courantes : restrict a function, restrict the domain