containment

English

Etymology

contain +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnmənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

containment (countable and uncountable, plural containments)

1. (uncountable) The state of being contained.
2. (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
3. (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     The containment of a rich man's estate.

     The spelling has been modernized.

4. (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.

   Coordinate terms: rollback, regime change, détente

   • 2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.

5. (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
6. (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.

Derived terms

• containment boom
• containment line

 

Translations

state of being contained

• Bulgarian: въздържане (bg) n (vǎzdǎržane)
• Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f
• Finnish: rajoittuminen, pidättyminen, eristyminen
• French: confinement (fr)
• Italian: contenimento (it)
• Portuguese: contenção (pt)
• Spanish: contenimiento m
• Swedish: begränsning (sv) c, hejdande (sv) n, inneslutning (sv) c

state of containing

• Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f
• Danish: inddæmning (da)
• Estonian: piiramine
• Finnish: rajoittaminen (fi), pidättäminen (fi), hillitseminen, eristäminen (fi)
• French: confinement (fr)
• German: Eindämmung (de) f
• Italian: contenimento (it)
• Portuguese: contenção (pt) f
• Spanish: contenimiento m
• Vietnamese: sự chứa đựng (vi), sự bao hàm (vi), sự gồm có, sự bao gồm (vi)

something contained

• Catalan: contingut (ca) m

policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power

• Bulgarian: сдържане (bg) n (sdǎržane)
• Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f
• Danish: inddæmningspolitik c
• Finnish: patoamispolitiikka, patoaminen (fi)
• German: Eindämmungspolitik f
• Russian: сде́рживание (ru) n (sdérživanije)
• Spanish: contención f
• Swedish: uppdämning (sv) c, uppdämningspolitik c, tillbakahållning c, tillbakahållningspolitik c, återhållning c, indämning c, indämningspolitik c, hejdande (sv) n
• Ukrainian: стри́мування n (strýmuvannja)
• Vietnamese: chính sách ngăn chặn

physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials

• Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f
• Finnish: eristysjärjestelmä
• German: Sicherheitsumschließung f, Sicherheitsbehälter m (vessel)
• Spanish: contención f

mathematical inclusion

• Catalan: inclusió f

Further reading

• containment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia