Confinement may refer to
* With respect to humans:
** An old-fashioned or archaic synonym for
childbirth
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Postpartum confinement
Postpartum confinement is a traditional practice following childbirth. Those who follow these customs typically begin immediately after the birth, and the seclusion or special treatment lasts for a culturally variable length: typically for one mon ...
(or postnatal confinement), a system of recovery after childbirth, involving rest and special foods
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Civil confinement for psychiatric patients
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Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which the inmate lives in a single cell with little or no meaningful contact with other people. A prison may enforce stricter measures to control contraband on a solitary prisoner and use additi ...
, a strict form of imprisonment
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Home care Homecare (also spelled as home care) is health care or supportive care provided by a professional caregiver in the individual home where the patient or client is living, as opposed to care provided in group accommodations like clinics or nursing ho ...
supported living
* The confinement of an animal specimen in a
zoo
* In physics:
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Color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non-observation of color charged particles like free quarks
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Confinement of thermonuclear plasmas, as a requirement to obtain fusion energy
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Confined liquid
In condensed matter physics, a confined liquid is a liquid that is subject to geometric constraints on a nanoscopic scale so that most molecules are close enough to an interface to sense some difference from standard bulk liquid conditions. Typical ...
, by pores or similar
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Quantum confinement
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