Constraint vs Encirclement - What's the difference?
constraint | encirclement |
Something that constrains.
(mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
A restriction.
The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
(military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 9:
*:Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement , whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.