Confinement
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Confinement may refer to either
- With respect to humans:
- Civil confinement for psychiatric patients
- Solitary confinement, a strict form of imprisonment
- Term used to describe the time during which a woman is in childbirth.
- The traditional postnatal confinement of a woman after childbirth that is practiced by some Asian cultures
- 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 necessary requirement to obtain fusion energy
- Confinement of liquids by pores or similar