Confinement

Confinement may refer to

• With respect to humans:
  • An old-fashioned or archaic synonym for childbirth
  • Postpartum confinement (or postnatal confinement), a system of recovery after childbirth, involving rest and special foods
  • Civil confinement for psychiatric patients
  • Solitary confinement, a strict form of imprisonment

• The confinement of an animal specimen in a zoo
• In physics:
  • Color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non-observation of color charged particles like free quarks
  • Confinement of thermonuclear plasmas, as a requirement to obtain fusion energy
  • Confinement of liquids by pores or similar
  • Quantum confinement