Narrowing

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Narrow \Nar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narrowed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Narrowing}.] [AS. nearwian.]
     1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a
        smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. --Sir
        W. Temple.
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     2. To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal
        or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to
        narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in
        discussion.
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              Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine
              ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --I.
                                                    Watts.
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     3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by
        taking two stitches into one.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Narrowing \Nar"row*ing\, n.
     1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in
        breadth or extent.
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     2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  narrowing
       adj 1: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers";
              "trousers with tapered legs" [syn: {tapered}, {tapering}]
       2: (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom [syn: {constricting},
           {constrictive}]
       n 1: an instance of becoming narrow
       2: a decrease in width [ant: {widening}]
       3: the act of making something narrower [ant: {widening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "narrowing":
     abbreviation, astriction, astringency, ban, bar, barring, blockade,
     bottleneck, boycott, cervix, circumscription, coarctation,
     compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration,
     condensation, confining, consolidation, constriction,
     constringency, contraction, contracture, cramping, curtailment,
     debarment, debarring, decrease, demarcation, diminuendo,
     disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillation, embargo, exception,
     exclusion, hourglass, hourglass figure, inadmissibility,
     injunction, isthmus, knitting, limitative, limiting, lockout,
     narrow place, neck, nonadmission, omission, preclusion,
     prohibition, puckering, purification, pursing, reduction,
     refinement, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restricting,
     restriction, restrictive, shortening, simplification,
     solidification, stranglement, strangulation, streamlining,
     striction, stricture, stripping, stripping down, systole, taboo,
     taper, tapering, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling,
     wasp waist, wrinkling
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  narrowing
       
          {Unification} followed by {unfolding}.  The left-hand side of
          a {rule} is unified with some term, resulting in a set of
          variable bindings.  The term is then replaced by the
          right-hand side of the rule with values substituted for {bound
          variable}s.