Confinement

Confinement may refer to either

• Civil confinement for psychiatric patients
• Color confinement, the physical principle explaining the non-observation of color charged particles like free quarks
• Solitary confinement, a strict form of imprisonment
• The confinement of an animal specimen in a zoo
• The traditional postnatal confinement of a woman after childbirth that is practiced by some Asian cultures.
• Confinement of thermonuclear plasmas, as a necessary requirement to obtain fusion energy.