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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Restriction \Re*stric"tion\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
restriction
noun
1: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" [syn: {limitation}]
2: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: {limitation}]
3: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "restriction": allowance, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, ban, bar, barring, blockade, blockage, blocking, boundary, bounds, boycott, brake, caging, cession, check, circumscription, clogging, closeness, closing up, closure, concession, condition, confinement, constraint, constriction, continence, control, cramp, cramping, crowdedness, curb, debarment, debarring, delay, demarcation, detainment, detention, discipline, embargo, exception, exclusion, exemption, extenuating circumstances, fixation, foot-dragging, grain of salt, grant, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hampering, hedge, hedging, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holdup, impediment, impoundment, inadmissibility, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, inhibition, injunction, interference, interruption, let, limit, limitation, lockout, lockup, mental reservation, moderation, modification, narrow gauge, narrowing, narrowness, nearness, negativism, nonadmission, nuisance value, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, omission, opposition, penning, preclusion, prescription, prohibition, proscription, provision, proviso, qualification, rejection, relegation, repression, repudiation, reservation, resistance, restrain, restraint, restrictedness, retardation, retardment, salvo, setback, slenderness, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, squeeze, stint, stipulation, straitness, stranglehold, strictness, stricture, suppression, taboo, tight squeeze, tightness, waiver
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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}]
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