Confinement

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
• (also titled Confinement), a 2016 Canadian film

• Isolation (health care)
• Lockdown