Confinement

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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
  • Imprisonment, usually as punishment for committing a crime
    • False imprisonment
  • 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:

• Confinement (2023 film), a 2023 Singaporean horror-thriller film
• 2149: The Aftermath (also titled Confinement), a 2016 Canadian film