Containment (Noun)
Meaning 1
A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
The act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.