n. The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted; limitation; confinement within bounds: as, grounds open to the public without restriction.n. That which restricts; a restraint: as, to impose restrictions on trade.n. Reservation; reserve.n. In logic:n. The act of limiting a proposition by a restrictive particle.n. The inference from a universal to a particular proposition, or to one in which the subject is narrower while the predicate remains the same: as, all crows are black, hence some white crows are black. The example illustrates the danger of such inference.