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say it: kuhn-TAYN-muhnt
containment is a noun meaning "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". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
physics
the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
“the containment of the AIDS epidemic”
“the containment of the rebellion”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for containment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.