containment
(noun)
noun
1. 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
Definition categories: thought, policy
2. (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
Definition categories: man–made, system
3. the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
- the containment of the AIDS epidemic
- the containment of the rebellion