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

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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine
            ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. --i.
                                                  watts.
      1913 webster

   3. knitting to contract the size of, as a stocking, by
      taking two stitches into one.
      1913 webster
see also:
narrowed narrowing 

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

narrowing \nar"rowing\, n.
   1. the act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in
      breadth or extent.
      1913 webster

   2. the part of a stocking which is narrowed.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
tapered tapering constricting constrictive widening 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

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
        variables.
     
     
see also:
unification unfolding rule bound variable 

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