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noun : CONTAINMENT
Source:WordNet 3.1
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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" ;
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2. (
) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor ;
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3. (
) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion" ;
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