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Constraining vs Constrained - What's the difference?

constraining | constrained |

As verbs the difference between constraining and constrained

is that constraining is while constrained is (constrain).

As a noun constraining

is the act by which something is constrained.

As an adjective constrained is

within close bounds; confined.

constraining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    constrained

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (constrain)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • within close bounds; confined.

    • Derived terms

    * constrainedly * constrainedness