Verb

(en verb)

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

If we restrict sine to $[-\backslash frac\backslash pi2,\backslash frac\backslash pi2]$, we can define its inverse.

Verb

(en verb)

To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.

The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.

* Hooker

when men most sequester themselves from action

To separate in order to store.

The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.

To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

* Francis Bacon

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.

(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound

(legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.

To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

* South

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.

To seize and hold enemy property.

To withdraw; to retire.

* Milton

to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics

To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.