containment

Plural: containments

Noun

• 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"
• (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
• the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
  • "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"
  • "the containment of the rebellion"
• The state of being contained.
• The state of containing.
• Something contained.
• A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
• A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
• An inclusion.