What does 'restrict' mean?

I see a lot of use in function declarations, such as

size_t fread(void* restrict ptr, size_t size, size_t nobj, FILE* restrict fp);

but what does the keyword 'restrict' mean? there is no definition found in K&R 2nd.
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