Constraining

Verb

1. Present participle of constrain

Full definition of constraining

Noun

1. The act by which something is constrained.
• 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and ChangeIn contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.