Criteria vs. Constraint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Criteria and Constraint
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Definitions
Criteria➦
A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based.
Constraint➦
The threat or use of force to prevent, restrict, or dictate the action or thought of others.
Criteria➦
Plural of criterion
Constraint➦
The state of being restricted or confined within prescribed bounds
Soon tired of the constraint of military life.
Criteria➦
A single criterion.
Constraint➦
One that restricts, limits, or regulates; a check
Ignored all moral constraints in his pursuit of success.
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Constraint➦
Embarrassed reserve or reticence; awkwardness
"All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk" (Edith Wharton).
Constraint➦
Something that constrains; a restriction.
Constraint➦
An irresistible force or compulsion.
Constraint➦
The repression of one's feelings.
Constraint➦
(mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
Constraint➦
(databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
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Constraint➦
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.
Long imprisonment and hard constraint.
Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came.
Constraint➦
The state of being physically constrained;
Dogs should be kept under restraint
Constraint➦
A device that retards something's motion;
The car did not have proper restraints fitted
Constraint➦
The act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
