different between coaction vs constraint

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English coaccion, from Latin co?cti?.

Noun

coaction

1. (obsolete) force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling
   • November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God

     It had the passions in perfect subjection; and though its command over them was persuasive and political, yet it had the force of coaction, and despotical.

Etymology 2

co- +? action

Noun

coaction (countable and uncountable, plural coactions)

1. Collective or collaborative action.
   • 1997, Lauren B. Resnick, Discourse, Tools and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition

     In the coaction condition, however, where the children did not have any opportunity to interact with one another, the mixed gender pairings produced a marked and statistically significant polarization of performance […]

2. (mathematics) The mapped version of an action to a cogroup.

Anagrams

• octanoic

English

Etymology

From Middle English constreynt, constreynte, from Old French constreinte, past participle of constreindre (“to constrain”), from Latin c?nstring? (corresponding to the past participle c?nstrictus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?st?e?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Noun

constraint (countable and uncountable, plural constraints)

1. Something that constrains; a restriction.
2. An irresistible force or compulsion.
3. The repression of one's feelings.
4. (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
5. (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.

Derived terms

• constraint satisfaction

Related terms

• constrain
• constrict
• restraint

Translations

Further reading

• constraint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• in contrast