containment

IPA: kʌntˈeɪnmʌnt

(uncountable) The state of being contained.
(uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
(obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
(uncountable, countable) 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.
(countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
(countable, mathematics) An inclusion.

Examples of "containment" in Sentences

Once containment is lost so is the nested hierarchy.
‘At this time containment is not a feasible option,’ he said.
But if worst comes to worst, there are what he calls containment rooms.
If early containment is successful, the damages from this accident will be in the tens of billions.
And if those descendants do not have all of the defining characteristics of the ancestor then containment is lost.
One of the problems with containment is that lines were drawn at this event on roads (Cannon St and side streets) when the action was quite some distance away.
You use the term "containment" to describe the group who oppose a very strong policy of preventing Iran from obtaining the capability e.g., air strikes to destroy facilities.
Contaminated soil and rubble in the areas surrounding the Fukushima reactors have been piled up and abandoned while the government struggles to find a long-term containment area.
But the term containment was originally created by State Department analyst George Kennan to describe the necessity for strong measures including the use of military force to prevent the spread of Soviet communism.
And what we do is we through the natural flow of the river, some of that oil collects up in the bends up against the shore and in some cases we use what we call containment booms to actually draw the oil into close to shore, so we can actually capture it using vacuum trucks and manual labor to actually get in there and collect it.