Containment

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1. Noun

That which is contained; the extent; the substance.

2. Noun

(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
Vocabulary classified under Physics

3. 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"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
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