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constraint

[kuhn-streynt] / kənˈstreɪnt /




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This constraint is known as the Shockley-Queisser limit and has remained a major challenge.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

Electric power is a major constraint for the growth of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

"Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships," he wrote.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

"Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area," he added.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

What Shapin offers is essentially a circular argument: talk of constraint is incompatible with relativism, but historians are committed to relativism, consequently they must not talk of constraint.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton