containment
/kənˈteɪnmənt/ noun
Forms containments
- noun (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- noun (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- noun (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
- noun (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.
- noun (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- noun (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
Webster’s 1913
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