containment
English
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edit- IPA(key): /kənˈteɪnmənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editcontainment (countable and uncountable, plural containments)
- (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- The containment of a rich man's estate.
- (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.
- (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
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editstate of being contained
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state of containing
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policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power
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physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials
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mathematical inclusion
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Further reading
edit- containment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia