ogranichivat

Ogranichivat is a transliteration of the Russian verb ограни́чивать, meaning to limit, restrict, or bound. It denotes the act of placing a boundary, constraint, or cap on something or someone. The verb has imperfective and perfective forms: ограни́чивать (to restrict in a general or ongoing sense) and ограни́чить (to limit in a completed action). Related forms include ограничение (restriction, limitation) and ограниченный (restricted).

Etymology and sense: the term is built from the root related to граница, meaning border or boundary, with a prefix that conveys the imposition of a limit. The sense covers various domains, from physical boundaries to quantitative caps and regulatory constraints.

Usage: oganichivat is used across legal, political, mathematical, and everyday contexts. It governs what is allowed or possible, who may access something, or how much of something may be used. In formal language, it can describe policy measures, while in technical language it appears in discussions of limits, bounds, and constraints.

Examples:

- The government restricts access to information.

- The budget limits spending.

- A device restricts the speed of a machine.

- In mathematics, a function is bounded by certain values.

See also: limit, restriction, constrain, bound. The term is closely related to its noun form ogra nikh = limitation and its perfective counterpart ограни́чить, used when emphasizing a completed act of setting a limit.