Criteria vs. Constraint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Criteria and Constraint
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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.
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Constraint
One that restricts, limits, or regulates; a check
Ignored all moral constraints in his pursuit of success.
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.
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
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