0 present participle of restrict
1 to limit the movements or actions of someone, or to limit something and reduce its size or prevent it from increasing:
The government passed a law to restrict the sale of guns.
The new guidelines have restricted opportunities for development on the edge of the city.
Attempts to restrict parking in the city centre have further aggravated the problem of traffic congestion.
Of course, a generalised norm or level mapping can be interpreted as an ordinary norm or level mapping by restricting its domain to ground objects.
Restricting explanation to the actual microcausal chain misses this structural fact.
We also predicted wing development of flies should correlate inversely with roost duration, restricting flightless forms to bats in permanent roosts.
