containment

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  • February 23. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    containment noun english

    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"

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    containment noun english

    (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

  • February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    containment noun english

    the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"