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Containment logo #10101) Repression
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Containment logo #10101) US policy 2) Cold War policy 3) Policy 4) The act of containing 5) The CW show
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  1. the act of containing
  2. the act of containing something

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Containment logo #21000 Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between appeasement and rollback. The basis o...
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Containment logo #21000[RTS] Containment, is a term used in real-time strategy`s to describe the act of controlling an enemy player`s advancement, while often expanding oneself. Containment is a tactic most commonly used in the real-time strategy, StarCraft. It often consists of surrounding an enemy base with such great amounts of units/buildings, that they canno...
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Containment logo #21000[computer programming] In OOP supported languages, containership means an object is created within another object. == See also == difference between Container ship and Inheritance? http://forums.devx.com/archive/index.php/t-86776.html ...
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containment logo #20721Process by which possible release, discharge or spill of a toxic substance during normal use or after an accident is prevented by appropriate action.
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Containment logo #21002• (n.) That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
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containment logo #21003(from the article `Reckless, Walter`) ...as an insulator against the social and personal forces that drove some boys toward delinquency ( human behaviour: self-concept, or identity). In ...
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containment logo #21003(from the article `plasma`) Magnetic fields are used to contain high-density, high-temperature plasmas because such fields exert pressures and tensile forces on the plasma. An ...
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containment logo #21003strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States in the late 1940s and the early 1950s in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet ... [6 related articles]
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containment logo #21160Also known as confinement, the process of preventing the plasma in a controlled thermonuclear reaction from coming into contact with the walls of the containing vessel. The approximate period for which the ions trapped by the containing field is referred to as the containment time or the confinement...
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containment logo #21142set of methods, provisions and systems to prevent the transfer or spread of radioactive materials, in unacceptable quantities, across defined boundaries even in the case of accidents
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containment logo #20688US policy (adopted from the late 1940s) designed to prevent the spread of communism from the USSR. It was first stated by George Kennan, then director of the State Department's policy planning...
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containment logo #20973The concept of regional or global eradication of communicable disease, proposed by Fred Lowe Soper (1893-1977) in 1949 for the eradication of smallpox. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Containment logo #20972Con·tain'ment noun That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [ Obsolete] « The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. »
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containment logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: kon-tān′ment Definitions: 1. The concept of regional or global eradication of communicable disease, proposed by Fred Lowe Soper (1893-1977) in 1949 for the eradication of smallpox.
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Containment logo #23366A U.S. foreign policy meant to prevent communism from spreading outside of the Eastern Bloc states; this policy led to a quadrupling of
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Containment logo #23189containment by value and containment by reference. Containment by value implies that an object contains another object; containment by reference implies that an object contains a pointer to another object.
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containment logo #20400[n] - a policy of checking the expansion of a hostile power or ideology by creating strategic alliances 2. [n] - (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor 3. [n] - the act of containing (especially the restraint of a hostile country or a hostile military force)
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containment logo #20974 noun the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; `the containment of the AIDS epidemic`; `the containment of the rebellion`
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containment logo #21199the act or condition of containing. · an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, esp. a hostile nation. · (in a nuclear power plant) an enclosure completely surrounding a nuclear reactor, designed to prevent the release of radioactive material in the event of an accident.
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Containment logo #23799Fundamental U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War in which the U.S. tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
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containment logo #23665 keeping something from spreading
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