Retaining vs Containment - What's the difference?
retaining | containment |
Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
(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