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
    • Home care supported living
  • 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
    • Confined liquid, by pores or similar
    • Quantum confinement

Confinement may also refer to:

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