Prevention vs Constraint - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks; hence, precaution; forethought.
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
* Shakespeare
Something that constrains.
(mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
A restriction.
Prevention is a related term of constraint.
As nouns the difference between prevention and constraint
is that prevention is prevention while constraint is something that constrains.prevention
English
Noun
- The greater the distance, the greater the prevention .
- (Hammond)
- (Shakespeare)
- (South)
- Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention .