containment

containment

English

Etymology

contain +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈteɪnmənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

containment (countable and uncountable, plural containments)

1. (uncountable) The state of being contained.
2. (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
3. (obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     The containment of a rich man's estate.

4. (uncountable, countable) 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.

   Coordinate terms: rollback, regime change, détente

   • 2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.

5. (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
6. (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.

Derived terms

• containment boom
• containment line

 

Translations

state of being contained

Bulgarian: въздържане (bg) n (vǎzdǎržane) Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f Finnish: rajoittuminen, pidättyminen, eristyminen French: confinement (fr) Italian: contenimento (it) Portuguese: contenção (pt) Spanish: contenimiento m

state of containing

Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f Danish: inddæmning (da) Estonian: piiramine Finnish: rajoittaminen (fi), pidättäminen (fi), hillitseminen, eristäminen (fi) French: confinement (fr) German: Eindämmung (de) f Italian: contenimento (it) Portuguese: contenção (pt) f Spanish: contenimiento m Vietnamese: sự chứa đựng (vi), sự bao hàm (vi), sự gồm có, sự bao gồm (vi)

something contained

Catalan: contingut (ca) m

policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power

Bulgarian: сдържане (bg) n (sdǎržane) Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f Danish: inddæmningspolitik c Finnish: patoamispolitiikka, patoaminen (fi) German: Eindämmungspolitik f Spanish: contención f Vietnamese: chính sách ngăn chặn

physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of dangerous materials

Catalan: conteniment m, contenció (ca) f Finnish: eristysjärjestelmä German: Sicherheitsumschließung f, Sicherheitsbehälter m (vessel) Spanish: contención f

mathematical inclusion

Catalan: inclusió f

Further reading

• containment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia