Containment
Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term ''cordon sanitaire'', which was ...
is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.
Containment may also refer to:
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Containment (computer programming)
In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation the distinction between composition and aggregation is often ignored. Common kin ...
, a form of object composition
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''Containment'' (film), a 2015 British film
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''Containment'' (TV series), a 2016 American series
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Containment building, a structure enclosing a nuclear reactor
* Containment, in set theory, another term for a
subset
In mathematics, Set (mathematics), set ''A'' is a subset of a set ''B'' if all Element (mathematics), elements of ''A'' are also elements of ''B''; ''B'' is then a superset of ''A''. It is possible for ''A'' and ''B'' to be equal; if they are ...
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Biocontainment
One use of the concept of biocontainment is related to laboratory biosafety and pertains to microbiology laboratories in which the physical containment of pathogenic organisms or agents (bacteria, viruses, and toxins) is required, usually by is ...
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Container (disambiguation)
A container is any receptacle or enclosure for holding a product used in storage, packaging, and shipping.
Container may also refer to:
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* Container (abstract data type), a class or data structure that is a collection of other objects
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Isolation (disambiguation)
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Contentment (disambiguation)
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