Containments Meaning

There are 3 meaning(s) for word Containments

Meaning 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

    Example : containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975

Meaning 2 : (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

Meaning 3 : the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

    Example : the containment of the AIDS epidemic,the containment of the rebellion