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containment

/ containment /

noun

noun Sense 1

(military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading

"the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"

Type of:

restraint

Kinds of:

ring containment

Derived:

check turn back arrest stop contain

Domain:

military armed forces armed services

noun Sense 2

(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

Type of:

system

Domain:

physics physical science natural philosophy

noun Sense 3

a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully

"containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States'' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1"

Type of:

policy

Derived:

check turn back arrest stop contain

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