practical constraint
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpracticalandconstraint
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practical
adjective
uk/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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constraint
noun
uk/kənˈstreɪnt/us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandconstraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, thepracticalconstraintwe encounter is not speed, but memory.
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This may mean that there is apracticalconstrainton accommodating the patient and any immobilisation devices through the scanner.
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When compared to verification, our system is less expressive but more automatic when constraint domains withpracticalconstraintsatisfaction problems are chosen.
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Clearly, in turn, this presents apracticalconstrainton the extent to which all the women in a speech community might have some jointly negotiated enterprise.
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Is it a theoretical constraint or apracticalconstraint?
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I understand that the principalpracticalconstraintupon the number of special investigators is that we require highly trained people.
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There may be practical constraints (such as manpower and available facilities) preventing large numbers of replicates from being measured at each assay.
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Thus, our care should maximize autonomy for the demented person, as far as possible, within reasonable practical constraints.
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Practical constraints required a split-split-plot design of the field trial with three levels of splitting.
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Developing countries face practical constraints to challenging wealthier trading partners, such as limited legal and financial resources.
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There were two further limitations, both imposed by practical constraints.
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Within the practical constraints of the current discovery paradigm, however, it is difficult to imagine how these standards might be implemented.
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Practical constraints on the speed of data processing and analysis also limit the rate of response.
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Provider organisations and staff have had to incorporate its ideas alongside many other practical constraints and targets.
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Due to practical constraints, we restricted the number of piglets to 40.
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Care should maximize autonomy for the person with dementia as far as possible, within reasonable practical constraints.
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These solutions, in the form of statistical models and techniques, are developed under the practical constraints of the mathematical theory and computational power existent at the time of their development.
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This stage was characterised by a sudden awareness of the reality of the profession and importantly, the financial and practical constraints of forging a career in the music industry.
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In addition to the practical constraints, there are ethical considerations about invading parents' personal space at such a time to do anything other than be supportive to them.
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This scale of spatial aggregation was chosen as a compromise between practical constraints and data requirements given the small size and high density of individuals relative to other tropical forests.
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