capacity constraint
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcapacityandconstraint
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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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 ofcapacityandconstraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The various lengths, angles and positions can be constrained or liberated at will, and if a particular combination is incompatible with thecapacityconstraintthe 'design solution' will fail.
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There is no doubt that the health service has suffered over the years from acapacityconstraint.
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There is clearly acapacityconstraint, whether through choice, or because certain fundamentals are difficult to effect.
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There are both short and medium-term answers to the currentcapacityconstraint.
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He is right: part of thecapacityconstraintis to ensure that we have the work force in place.
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The companies still rely on small-scale farmers for over 90% of their production because of thecapacityconstraintof the modern facilities.
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First, there are responses related to capacity constraints or supply side problems.
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The quantity bid for depends on the source destination pair's demand and link capacity constraints.
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The reason was traced to a combination of transport logistics and capacity constraints.
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In fixedbase manipulators, the maximum allowable load is limited mainly by their joint actuator capacity constraints.
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It determines the backward spread of congestion as queues on downstream lanes, block upstream lanes, and appliescapacityconstraintto over-saturated upstream lanes; thus limiting the flows entering downstream lanes.
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During floods, storage capacity constraints lead to increases in damage, so that downstream nations are willing to help build storage capacity in upstream nations.
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In terms of rural policy, however, the new government's resource and capacity constraints have hindered the implementation of effective change.
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For example, these could represent capacity constraints on the utilization of stocks.
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In their solution to the problem they ignore the capacity constraints, using the fact that the objective function spreads the load across the resources.
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This suggested unit-related capacity constraints on data processing to account for package formation.
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The routes usually hold capacity constraints limiting the length or the load (the sum of the weights of the visited customers) of the routes.
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Knowledge of their own capacity constraints makes some deputies hesitant to insert themselves forcefully in national affairs.
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We are already hearing reports of capacity constraints in industry.
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Due to capacity constraints, there are no parcel services available.
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