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Definition of Containment
1. Noun. 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"
2. Noun. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
3. Noun. The act of containing; keeping something from spreading. "The containment of the rebellion"
Definition of Containment
1. n. That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Definition of Containment
1. Noun. the act of containing or something contained ¹
2. Noun. 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 ¹
3. Noun. a physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant. ¹
4. Noun. (mathematics) an inclusion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Containment
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Medical Definition of Containment
1. The concept of regional or global eradication of communicable disease, proposed by Fred Lowe Soper (1893-1977) in 1949 for the eradication of smallpox. (05 Mar 2000)
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