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Containment vs Mitigation - What's the difference?

containment | mitigation |

As nouns the difference between containment and mitigation

is that containment is (uncountable) the state of being contained while mitigation is relief; alleviation.

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
  • mitigation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • relief; alleviation