Associations to the word «Containment»
Noun
- Decay
- Disruption
- Collapse
- Outbreak
- Safeguard
- Compression
- Fume
- Failure
- Sanction
- Detection
- Confrontation
- Comm
- Threat
- Bladder
- Accident
- Pol
- Expansion
- Vietnam
- Subset
- Marcos
- Chemical
- Priority
- Soviets
- Flu
- Measure
- Rod
- Environment
- Material
- Clean
- Equipment
- Risk
- Neutron
- Energy
- Fail
- Oxygen
- Liberation
- Oil
- Iraq
- Debris
- Turbine
- Unit
- Boiling
- Capability
- Inspection
- Propagation
- Repository
- Healthcare
- Control
- Effectiveness
- Pumping
- Filter
- Liquid
- Damage
- Globalization
- Zombie
- Requirement
- Purification
- Coupling
- Gas
- Pipe
- Pollution
- Overthrow
- Structure
- Monitor
- Mage
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
CONTAINMENT, noun. (uncountable) The state of being contained.
CONTAINMENT, noun. (uncountable) (countable) The state of containing.
CONTAINMENT, noun. (uncountable) (countable) Something contained.
CONTAINMENT, noun. (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.
CONTAINMENT, noun. (countable) a physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
CONTAINMENT, noun. (countable) (mathematics) an inclusion
CONTAINMENT BOOM, noun. A temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill.
Dictionary definition
CONTAINMENT, 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".
CONTAINMENT, noun. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor.
CONTAINMENT, noun. The act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion".
Wise words
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