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containment

kənˈteɪnmənt
WordNet
Chest containing a couple of pistols along with all the supplies. Engraved in gold on the barrel: ARGer DE L'EMPEREUR. An eagle is engraved on the crop bracket. Attached are three letters from which it can be deduced that these pistols belonged to Napoleon I. The pistols were taken as booty, from one of the Emperor's carriages, by the brother of Major Henry Sagermans after the Battle of Waterloo.
Chest containing a couple of pistols along with all the supplies. Engraved in gold on the barrel: ARGer DE L'EMPEREUR. An eagle is engraved on the crop bracket. Attached are three letters from which it can be deduced that these pistols belonged to Napoleon I. The pistols were taken as booty, from one of the Emperor's carriages, by the brother of Major Henry Sagermans after the Battle of Waterloo.
  1. (n) containment
    the act of containing; keeping something from spreading "the containment of the AIDS epidemic","the containment of the rebellion"
  2. (n) containment
    (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
  3. (n) containment
    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"
Illustrations
German military photo album from the Second World War with a cloth cover. It contains 22 brown cardboard inner sheets, in between glassine on which butterflies, bound in cover with iron ring binder. The album contains 187 black and white photos of, among other things, a barracks in Germany, men with shovels (Reichsarbeitsdienst?), The beach, bombed cities (Rotterdam) and bridges, the pier at Scheveningen, Binnenhof in The Hague, Council of Labor, pictures buildings from Brussels, stay in a hospital, the Rokin, Central Station and tour boat in Amsterdam, German war graves. 4 sheets blank.
German military photo album from the Second World War with a cloth cover. It contains 22 brown cardboard inner sheets, in between glassine on which butterflies, bound in cover with iron ring binder. The album contains 187 black and white photos of, among other things, a barracks in Germany, men with shovels (Reichsarbeitsdienst?), The beach, bombed cities (Rotterdam) and bridges, the pier at Scheveningen, Binnenhof in The Hague, Council of Labor, pictures buildings from Brussels, stay in a hospital, the Rokin, Central Station and tour boat in Amsterdam, German war graves. 4 sheets blank.
Porcelain bowl, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall eight lotus-leaf-shaped compartments with flowering plants near a rock (peony, prunus, chrysanthemum, etc.), between the compartments a half flower with tendrils; on the bottom a medallion with a rock, flower sprays and insects; the inner rim with napkin work alternated with lobed cartouches with flower sprays near a rock. Edge slightly damaged. Blue White.
Come with lotus leaf shaped boxes containing flower sprays, rocks and insects
The city of Dundee illustrated: containing reminiscences and remarks, critical and otherwise relating to Dundee and neighborhood (...)
Middle Dutch manuscript containing an unwritten engraving depicting the face of Christ, with a star-shaped halo. The manuscript contains texts of St. Augustine (including '' Regula cum glossis '') and the Pseudo-Augustinus (including the "Manuale") in Middle Dutch and Latin, of which 212 folios on paper and 19 folios on parchment, bound in a 17th century calf leather binding with blind stamp. The engraving is pasted on a bound sheet with a blank verso.
Middle Dutch manuscript containing an unwritten engraving depicting the face of Christ, with a star-shaped halo. The manuscript contains texts of St. Augustine (including '' Regula cum glossis '') and the Pseudo-Augustinus (including the "Manuale") in Middle Dutch and Latin, of which 212 folios on paper and 19 folios on parchment, bound in a 17th century calf leather binding with blind stamp. The engraving is pasted on a bound sheet with a blank verso.
Album with 53 performances 56 album pages. The album contains three series engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetechum after a design by Vredeman de Vries. These are: The first boeck ghemaeckt on the two Colomns Dorica and Ionica, 1565; Das ander Buech, gemacht die zway Colonnen Corinthia und Composita, 1565 and Architectura de Oorden Tuschana, 1578. These are depictions of pedestals, postaments, entablatures, consoles, capitals, facades and windows in the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite and Tuscan Order. Each series is preceded by a title page and introduction. Half leather binding with decorative paper covers, a flyleaf in the front and back.
Album with 53 performances 56 album pages. The album contains three series engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetechum after a design by Vredeman de Vries. These are: The first boeck ghemaeckt on the two Colomns Dorica and Ionica, 1565; Das ander Buech, gemacht die zway Colonnen Corinthia und Composita, 1565 and Architectura de Oorden Tuschana, 1578. These are depictions of pedestals, postaments, entablatures, consoles, capitals, facades and windows in the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite and Tuscan Order. Each series is preceded by a title page and introduction. Half leather binding with decorative paper covers, a flyleaf in the front and back.
Oak plank containing a round magic lantern slide of a windmill. The blades of the windmill are painted on a separate glass plate, which can be turned loose from the other glass plate by means of a wheel and a string. This gives the impression that the mill is running.
Oak plank containing a round magic lantern slide of a windmill. The blades of the windmill are painted on a separate glass plate, which can be turned loose from the other glass plate by means of a wheel and a string. This gives the impression that the mill is running.
A picture gallery of British art containing twenty permanent photographs after paintings by eminent artists
Fragment of the bottom of a small container of quartz chips with a white glazed glaze. Around the circular center an edge of points. On the bottom a medallion with in the blue field a decoration of circular segments and flower tendrils with white and red accents and black outlines. The fragment was found in Cairo.
Fragment of a small container with flower tendrils in a medallion
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
February 17th, 1930, was the first flight by a cow in an airplane. The milk that was produced by the cow during the flight was put into containers and parachuted over the city of St. Louis
  1. Containment
    a structure surrounding a nuclear power plant designed to prevent release of radioactive materials into the environment in the event of an accident.
  2. Containment
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. "The containment of a rich man's estate."
  3. Containment
    the act of containing.
  4. Containment
    the act of restricting some deleterious substance within a confined space, especially when such material is released unintentionally or by accident; as, containment of nuclear waste; containment of an oil spill. Also used attributively, as a containment boom.
  5. Containment
    (Diplomacy) the act or policy of restricting the influence or territorial growth of a hostile nation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze
  1. (n) containment
    That which is contained or comprised; extent; contents.
Quotations
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
Napoleon Bonaparte
Daniel Day Lewis
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Daniel Day Lewis
Og Mandino
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Og Mandino
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Mark Twain
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Usage in the news

Sometimes the little tin contains Norwegian " anchovies ," which are sprats. nytimes.com

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on June 16, 2009 2:41 PM. plasticsnews.com

There's a new summer bedding plant in town, and it's taking plots and containers by storm. dallasnews.com

The first module of the Namgis closed containment salmon farm includes five 500-cubic metre tanks and smaller tanks for quarantine of new smolts. vancouversun.com

D7588 Standard Guide for FT-IR Fingerprinting of a Non- Aqueous Liquid Paint as Supplied in the Manufacturer's Container. paintsquare.com

These aquifers contain many times the amount of water found on the surface, the BBC wrote. globalpost.com

New Arab Leaders Scramble to Contain Gaza Conflict. online.wsj.com

More than 1,200 firefighters are working to contain the Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire. alibi.com

Use containers which are clean. ars.org

Going through your stockpile of containers on an annual basis is usually a good idea. ars.org

The custom installer and builder took good care to keep sound contained in this theater room. electronichouse.com

Workers guide a recycled shipping container onto a lot where Canada's first multi-home recycled shipping container housing project is being constructed in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C. vancouversun.com

Each barge can carry sixty containers (weighing up to 25 tons each) 60x6=360 containers per tow. rdw.com

Material Transfer's Lift & Seal container discharging and feeding system accepts, seals, rotates and discharges containers of material at 78 in. foodengineeringmag.com

GPA has 64 electric refrigerated container racks that accommodate more than 1,500 containers on terminal. refrigeratedtrans.com

Usage in scientific papers

The uniformization limit group, U nif , is composed from two graded completions, one that contains the subgroup < p >, and one that contains the subgroup < q > (these are the two vertex groups in the graph of groups ∆ that is associated with U nif , the one that contains < p >, and the one that contains < q >).
Diophantine Geometry over Groups IX: Envelopes and Imaginaries

In that case the image of the (completion of the) multi-graded resolution M GResu is contained in the vertex group that contains < p >, and the image of the (completion of the) multi-graded resolution M GResv is contained in the vertex group that contains < q >.
Diophantine Geometry over Groups IX: Envelopes and Imaginaries

By lemma 4.2, the subgroup < p > is contained in one vertex group in ΛEx C l , that contains the image of the completion of M GResu , and the subgroup < q > is contained in a second vertex group in ΛEx C l , that contains the image of the completion of M GResv .
Diophantine Geometry over Groups IX: Envelopes and Imaginaries

The smallest-scale sub-index contains only 6 stars per HEALPix grid cell rather than 10 as in the other sub-indices, because the USNO-B catalog does not contain enough stars: a large fraction of the smallest cells contain fewer than 10 stars.
Astrometry.net: Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images

I propose that each IE be stored in a container object of a type belonging to a class of generic information containers. A hierarchy of generic information container classes can be developed from the consideration of generic IE categories developed at activity level.
On challenges and opportunities of designing integrated IT platforms for supporting knowledge works in organizations

Usage in literature

The moment is at length arrived when you are to receive from me an account of some of the principal treasures contained in the ROYAL LIBRARY of Paris. "A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two" by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The important thing to note is that all the explosives from gunpowder down contain nitrogen as the essential element. "Creative Chemistry" by Edwin E. Slosson

They contain a poison identical with prussic acid. "Food Remedies" by Florence Daniel

Before 1790, Rouen contained thirty seven parochial churches and about as many religious communities of both sexes. "Rouen, It's History and Monuments" by Théodore Licquet

But if Nismes itself is not picturesque, its environs contain the wonderful Pont du Gard. "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete" by John Symonds

Dry cave earth appears for 20 feet, at which distance it merges with mud containing large rocks. "Archeological Investigations" by Gerard Fowke

The portions containing air are of a light brick-red colour, and crepitate under the finger. "Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology" by W. G. Aitchison Robertson

Spring water, which contains more air, has a more lively taste than river water. "A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons" by Fredrick Accum

This edition contains all the Nonsense Books, with all the original illustrations. "A Mother's List of Books for Children" by Gertrude Weld Arnold

His private library contained nearly everything ever written about that great general. "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights" by Kelly Miller

Usage in poetry
You would that I write on the Sabbath of God,
But know you the meaning contain'd in that word?
You would that I write on the season of rest,
But know you by whom is that season possess'd?
"The Sabbath" by Caroline Fry Author object (89)
For not the world, nor all the world contains,
Can keep thy soul from hell's tremendous pains;
But Christ to heav'n the precious charge can bear,
And from the winged dragon's talons tear.
"Advice, To Search For The Lord Jesus Christ" by Rees Prichard
But sweet was the incense that flow'd from thy lips,
In mercy for those who regarded thee not;
Each tear-drop that fell on thy bosom contain'd
A balm for our sorrows when thine were forgot.
"The Wild Flower" by Caroline Fry Author object (89)
For I am the Wind, and I rule mankind,
And I hold a sovereign reign
Over the lands, as God designed,
And the waters they contain:
Lo! the bound of the wide world round
Falleth in my domain!
"What The Wind Said" by James Whitcomb Riley Author object (339)
Her pure nails sprung up exalting their onyx,
Anxiety, this midnight, bearing light, sustains,
In twilight many dreams burnt up by the Phoenix
Whose scattered ashes no sepulchral urn contains
"Anxiety" by Stephane Mallarme Author object (627)
My worthy friend, A. Gordon Knott,
From business snug withdrawn,
Was much contented with a lot
That would contain a Tudor cot
'Twixt twelve feet square of garden-plot,
And twelve feet more of lawn.
"The Unhappy Lot Of Mr. Knott" by James Russell Lowell Author object (334)