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Meaning of containment


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  containment
      n 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"
      2: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release
         of radioactive material from a reactor
      3: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the
         containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the
         rebellion"


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