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English noun: containment | |||
| 1. | containment (cognition) 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 | ||
| Samples | Containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | policy | ||
| 2. | containment (artifact) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | system | ||
| Domain category | natural philosophy, physics | ||
| 3. | containment (act) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | ||
| Samples | The containment of the AIDS epidemic. The containment of the rebellion. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | restraint | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ring containment | ||
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