containment

Noun
  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 (synset 105995833)
    "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
    is a type of: policy - a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
  2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor (synset 103100616)
    referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions
    is a type of: system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
  3. The act of containing;
    Keeping something from spreading (synset 101149964)
    "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
    is a type of: restraint - the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
    subtypes: ring containment - a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism; vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them

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