containment

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noun

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
• Derivationally related forms:
contain
• Hypernyms:
policy
2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
• Topics:
physics, natural philosophy
• Hypernyms:
system
3. the act of containing;
keeping something from spreading
- the containment of the AIDS epidemic
- the containment of the rebellion
• Derivationally related forms:
contain
• Hypernyms:
restraint
• Hyponyms:
ring containment