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 pecefully; "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: (military) the act of containing something or someone; keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the containment of the rebel forces"

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Containment : \Con*tain"ment\, n. That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.] The containment of a rich man's estate. --Fuller.