restriction

From Middle English restriccioun, from Anglo-Norman restriction, Middle French restriction, and their source, Late Latin restrictiō, from Latin restringō.

Morphologically restrict +‎ -ion.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən
• Hyphenation: re‧stric‧tion

restriction (countable and uncountable, plural restrictions)

1. The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
2. A regulation or limitation that restricts.
   • 1835, Thomas Stephen, “The Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvement of the Laws of England”, in The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain: , Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, ; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun., & Co.; London: Simpkin & Marshall, →OCLC, pages 275–276:

     In the year 1819, Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill, and which finally passed both houses, and received the royal assent on the 2nd July, for continuing the restrictions contained in several acts of parliament, on payments in cash by the bank of England, until the 1st day of May, 1823, and to provide for the gradual resumption of cash payments: [...] VIII. After the first day of May, 1822, the bank of England, if they shall think fit, may pay or exchange the lawful coin of the realm, for any of their own notes, payable on demand.

3. (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
   • 2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Echinorhagata is likewise supported by typical echinoderid autapomorphies, inclusive the number of trichoscalids that is reduced from 14 to 6; restriction of lateral accessory spines to females only; and an apparent restriction of the middorsal spines to appear only on segments 4 to 8.

• It is often used with the preposition "on", i.e., "restriction on something".

• restrict
• restrain
• restraint
• constriction

• tortricines

Inherited from Middle French restriction, from Old French restriction, borrowed from Late Latin restrictiōnem, from Latin restringō.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.tʁik.sjɔ̃/

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restriction f (plural restrictions)

1. restriction (limitation; constraint)

• restreindre
• restreint

• “restriction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from Late Latin restrictio, restrictionem, from Latin restringo.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstɾikˈt͡sjun/

restriction oblique singular, f (oblique plural restrictions, nominative singular restriction, nominative plural restrictions)

1. restriction (limitation; constraint)

• restreindre

• English: restriction
• French: restriction

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