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