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Engelsk navneord: containment

1. containment (om erkendelse) 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


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningContainment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975.


Mindre specifikke termerpolicy

2. containment (om genstand) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor


Mindre specifikke termersystem


Overordnet emneområdenatural philosophy, physics

3. containment (om handling) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe containment of the AIDS epidemic.
The containment of the rebellion.


Mindre specifikke termerrestraint


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