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Restricts vs Limits - What's the difference?

restricts | limits |

As verbs the difference between restricts and limits

is that restricts is third-person singular of restrict while limits is third-person singular of limit.

As a noun limits is

plural of lang=en.

restricts

English

Verb

(head)
  • (restrict)

    • restrict

    English

    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 [-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2], we can define its inverse.

    Synonyms

    * (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Restricted.

    • Anagrams

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    limits

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (limit)