incarceration

See also: incarcération

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French incarceration, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  incarceratio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)

1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
2. (surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
3. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Derived terms

• decarceration
• disincarceration
• overincarceration
• reincarceration

 

Related terms

• incarcerate

Translations

act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment

• Armenian: բանտարկություն (hy) (bantarkutʻyun)
• Catalan: encarcerament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下獄／下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 監禁／监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), (limited term) 有期徒刑 (zh) (yǒuqí túxíng)

• Czech: věznění
• Finnish: vangitseminen (fi)
• French: incarcération (fr) f
• German: Einkerkerung f
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• Hebrew: מַאֲסָר (he) m (ma'asár)
• Italian: incarcerazione (it)
• Japanese: 投獄 (ja) (とうごく, tōgoku)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധനം (ml) (bandhanaṁ), ജയിൽ വാസം (jayil vāsaṁ), ജയിലിലാക്കല് (jayililākkal)
• Portuguese: encarceramento (pt) m
• Russian: лише́ние свобо́ды (ru) n (lišénije svobódy), заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) (в тюрьму)
• Spanish: encarcelación (es) f, encarcelamiento (es) m

formerly, strangulation, as in hernia

• Czech: zauzlení
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constriction of the hernial sac

• Finnish: kurouma
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