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| containment | |
| 1. n. The state of being contained. |  |
| 2. n. The state of containing. | |
| 3. n. Something contained. | |
| 4. n. 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. | |
| 5. n. a physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) an inclusion | |
