Containment - Definition
containment
n 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"
2: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release
of radioactive material from a reactor
3: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the
containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the
rebellion"