constraining

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of constrain

noun

  1. The act by which something is constrained.
    In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity. 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change

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