containment

Meaning of containment

noun
  1. The state of being contained.
  2. The state of containing.
  3. Something contained.
  4. 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. A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
  6. An inclusion

Information about containment

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of containment is: containments.
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Hyphenation of containment

con-tain-ment

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • containment is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

containment antonyms

Meaning :

détente, rollback

Translation of containment

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