Hyphenation of containment

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word containment? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

con-tain-ment

Definitions of containment:

1.	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
2.	(physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
3.	The act of containing Keeping something from spreading The containment of the AIDS epidemic The containment of the rebellion

Synonyms of containment:

noun	policy
noun	system
noun	restraint

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.