constraining

English

Verb

constraining

1. present participle and gerund of constrain

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.