restriction : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: restriction	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for restriction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
restriction n a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" Synonym(s): restriction, limitation an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) Synonym(s): limitation, restriction the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" Synonym(s): restriction, confinement
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Restriction \Restric"tion\, n. [F. restriction, L. restrictio.] 1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds. This is to have the same restriction* with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement. --Giv. of Tonque. 2. That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
restriction n. A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}. Often used (esp. by {marketroid} types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false). Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 107 items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number -- on the other hand, a limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less {flamage} for it. Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
restriction A {bug} or design error that limits a program's capabilities, and which is sufficiently egregious that nobody can quite work up enough nerve to describe it as a {feature}. Often used (especially by {marketroid} types) to make it sound as though some crippling bogosity had been intended by the designers all along, or was forced upon them by arcane technical constraints of a nature no mere user could possibly comprehend (these claims are almost invariably false). Old-time hacker Joseph M. Newcomer advises that whenever choosing a quantifiable but arbitrary restriction, you should make it either a power of 2 or a power of 2 minus 1. If you impose a limit of 17 items in a list, everyone will know it is a random number - on the other hand, a limit of 15 or 16 suggests some deep reason (involving 0- or 1-based indexing in binary) and you will get less {flamage} for it. Limits which are round numbers in base 10 are always especially suspect. [{Jargon File}]