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Constraining vs Containment - What's the difference?

constraining | containment |

As nouns the difference between constraining and containment

is that constraining is the act by which something is constrained while containment is (uncountable) the state of being contained.

As a verb constraining

is .

constraining

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is constrained.
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
  • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.

    containment

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being contained.
  • (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
  • (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