containment
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- policy hypernym
Related & opposite
- hold back derivation
Sense 2 noun
(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
Types & categories
- system hypernym
Related & opposite
- physics domain topic
Sense 3 noun
the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
the containment of the AIDS epidemic
Types & categories
- restraint hypernym
- ring containment hyponym
Related & opposite
- hold back derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hold back |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | policy |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | system |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | hold back |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | restraint |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ring containment |