Containment

noun

kən'teɪnmənt

Noun

the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
“the containment of the AIDS epidemic”
“the containment of the rebellion”
Type of:Restraint
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”
Type of:Policy
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
Type of:System