Containment — definition

1. containment (Noun)

containment (Noun) — A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power, ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully. ex. "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"

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

containment (Noun) — The act of containing; keeping something from spreading. ex. "the containment of the AIDS epidemic" ex. "the containment of the rebellion"

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