constraining

English

Verb

constraining

  1. present participle and gerund of constrain
    • 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
      But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.

Noun

constraining (plural constrainings)

  1. The act by which something is constrained.
    • 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change:
      In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
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