1.Definition: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

Category: Objects

2.Definition: 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"

Category: General

3.Definition: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

"The containment of the AIDS epidemic", "The containment of the rebellion"

Category: General