Meaning of confinement in English

confinement

noun

/kənˈfaɪn.mənt/ us

/kənˈfaɪn.mənt/

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[ U ]

the situation in which a person or animal is kept somewhere, usually by force:

She spent most of those years under house arrest or close confinement.

[ C or U ] old-fashioned or formal

labour UK (= the process of giving birth to a baby)

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Obstetrics: birth

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We note that the changes at the plasma edge develop prior to the confinement transition.

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It has been shown that the presence of a poloidal flow leads to two different stationary confinement regimes.

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In the case of methods defined in the confining package, this ensues from the other confinement rules.

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Within two hours of confinement the first animal succumbed and others soon followed.

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We may call this confinement regime the quasistatic one (since it contains the equilibrium with v l 0 as a limiting case).

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Confinement satisfaction is defined to mean that every the expression being evaluated must be visible from the enclosing method's class.

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However, this choice of non-dimensional variables overlooks a possible role of atomic processes in confinement.

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The confinement rules partition the set of types and prevent types belonging to different partition from being confused with one another.

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Most commentators believed that many ' incorrigibles ' had to be interned in security confinement after their prison or penitentiary sentence, in order to protect society.

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Many prison officials agreed that, as long as security confinement had not become law, ' incorrigible ' inmates should at least be excluded from most benefits.

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The rationale for this physical confinement was in terms of protecting the child and ensuring their safety at all times.

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The assumption of the presence of a background electrostatic potential with a radial dependence was based on observations of high confinement plasmas.

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He was held in solitary confinement for over 19 months.

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Confinement can be viewed as strengthening visibility rules to ensure that instances of a package-scoped class do not escape their defining package.

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Confinement must be checked only before an object is constructed.

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