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Definitions:
Noun
containment
Definition: 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"
containment
Definition: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
containment
Definition: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
Definition: The state of being contained.