{
  "id": "constraint.limiting",
  "term": "constraint",
  "sense": "limiting",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "emergent-systems",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A wall placed deliberately, narrowing a window to keep drift inside it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "inside.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "A wall.range-end acts on a window.range by making it smaller through narrow.spatial, in order to contain drift.aimless within bounds.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bounded drift containment",
      "deliberate spatial restriction",
      "persistent parameter confinement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains 22 psi air pressure using electrolysis and resupply missions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1996 EU Data Protection Directive limited data transfers to countries with adequate privacy laws.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 2020 Nvidia GPU limits memory bandwidth to 600 GB/s, shaping AI model training speeds.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "grip.constraint"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "constraint",
    "constraints"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Fixed by adding missing constitutive components that the definition relies on but were absent from the record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-constraint.limiting"
}