Definition of Containment
- 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 Noun
- 2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor Noun
- 3. The act of containing; keeping something from spreading Noun
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