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Constraint vs Challenging - What's the difference?

constraint | challenging |

As nouns the difference between constraint and challenging

is that constraint is something that constrains while challenging is the act of making a challenge.

As a verb challenging is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective challenging is

difficult, hard to do.

constraint

English

(wikipedia constraint)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that constrains.
  • (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
  • A restriction.

    • Derived terms

    * constraint satisfaction

    Related terms

    * restraint

    challenging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult, hard to do.

    • Antonyms

    * unchallenging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a challenge.
  • * Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws (page 151)
    • There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.

    See also

    * challenge