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
- 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
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