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Constraint vs Pinching - What's the difference?

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Constraint is a related term of pinching.


As nouns the difference between constraint and pinching

is that constraint is something that constrains while pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches.

As an adjective pinching is

that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

As a verb pinching is

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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

    pinching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
    • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.