con·tain·ment /kənˈtenmənt/
包含;抑制;牽制
Con·tain·ment n.
1. That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.]
The containment of a rich man's estate. --Fuller.
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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 pecefully; "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: (military) the act of containing something or someone;
keeping it from spreading; "the army was charged with the
containment of the rebel forces"