confinement
1confinement — [ kɔ̃finmɑ̃ ] n. m. • 1481; de confiner 1 ♦ Action de confiner. ♢ Spécialt, méd. Interdiction à un malade de quitter la chambre. ⇒ quarantaine. 2 ♦ Phys. Limitation du volume accessible à des particules, dans une installation nucléaire. Spécialt… …
2Confinement — may refer to either Civil confinement for psychiatric patients Color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non observation of color charged particles like free quarks Solitary confinement, a strict form of imprisonment The… …
3Confinement — Con*fine ment, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [1913 Webster] The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Restraint …
4confinement — con·fine·ment n 1: the act of confining 2: the state of being confined Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. confinement …
5confinement — 1590s, from Fr. confinement (16c.; the O.Fr. word was confinacion), from confiner (see CONFINE (Cf. confine)). As a euphemism for childbed it dates from 1774 (the M.E. expression was Our Lady s bands) …
6Confinement — [kən faɪnmənt, englisch »Einschließung«] das, s, in der Elementarteilchenphysik die Tatsache, dass es bisher nicht gelungen ist, die vermutlichen Grundbausteine der Kernmaterie, die Quarks, als isolierte freie Teilchen aufzufinden, sondern nur… …
7confinement — [n1] imprisonment; restriction bonds, bounding, bounds, check, circumscription, coercion, constrainment, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, delimitation, detention, immuration, incarceration, internment, jail, keeping, limitation,… …
8confinement — [kən fīn′mənt] n. a confining or being confined; specif., a) imprisonment b) limitation; restriction; restraint c) childbirth; lying in …
9confinement — n. imprisonment being confined 1) solitary confinement (they put him into solitary confinement) 2) confinement to (confinement to quarters) 3) in confinement (in solitary confinement) lying in (obsol.) 4) in confinement (before the birth of a… …
10Confinement — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Confinement », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Confinement peut faire référence à :… …
