constraining

comparative more constraining · superlative most constraining

1. That constrains.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of constrain

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   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.

   2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53

plural constrainings

1. countableuncountableThe act by which something is constrained.

   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.

   1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change