constraining

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Verb

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constraining

  1. present participle and gerund of constrain

Noun

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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.