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self-confinement en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) Self-imposed restriction of movement to a particular location.
   • Nothing short of the lifelong self-confinement in the innermost chamber of a deserted cellar, of which he speaks to Felice, would seem to satisfy such rigorous requirements for concentration. 2002, Walter Herbert Sokel, The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka, page 73:
   • The invisible man's self-confinement in a basement clearly recalls Harriet Jacob's self-confinement in the attic space in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1865). 2022, Paula von Gleich, The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature, page 56:
   • A retrospective analysis using a physical-psychological-social inventory of 10 variables evaluated the number of individuals that during confinement and self-confinement (March 11 - June 29, 2020) canceled (mostly M-) and/or requested a therapeutic intervention, the reasons for their request, and the strategies they used to self-manage the situation. 2022, Antonia Ferrer-Torres, Lydia Giménez-Llort, “Confinement and the Hatred of Sound in Times of COVID-19: A Molotov Cocktail for People with Misophonia”, in Lydia Gimenez-Llort, Marie-José H. E. Gijsberts, Efosa Kenneth Oghagbon, editors, Death and Mourning Processes in the Times of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19), page 265:
   • A fine, self-confinement, and a trial. 2022, Lorelei Bell, Ascension:
2. (countable, uncountable) An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
   • In addition, that blocked life energy, recoiled and trapped within the selfish ego, produces negative feelings such as tension, fear, anger, self-confinement, and various other forms of inner and outer negativity. 2013, Dr. Max Hammer, Dr. Barry J. Hammer, Dr. Alan C. Butler, Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation, page 462:
   • There is no self-confinement that is not narcissistic. 2017, Marcus Steinweg, The Terror of Evidence, page 45:
   • Zhang Xinxin makes it clear to the readers that the liberation of the self under socialism can easily become another form of self-confinement if it demands or results in the negation of the self, especially the female self, or denies the individual of his or her distinct identity. 2010, Kwok-kan Tam, Terry Siu-han Yip, Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature, page 12:
   • In fact, there is only one form of confinement for which the Gothic offers little hope for escape: the self-confinement that results from internalization of social regulation, like that posited by Foucault. 2015, Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Property and Power in English Gothic Literature, page 66:
   • Intensity in the white collar world is the result of limited self-design, high prescription and self-confinement: it appears through permanent knowledge shortage, short-term solutions and relational instability. 2002, Armand Hatchuel, “Sources of intensity in work organizations”, in Peter Docherty, Jan Forslin, Abraham B. Shani, editors, Creating Sustainable Work Systems, page 49:
3. (countable, uncountable) A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
   • In particular, these considerations apply to a class of nonlinear effects which includes self-phase modulation (2), envelope soliton propagation (3), longitudinal self-confinement (4), degene rate four-wave mixing (5)(6) and nonlinear modal noise (7); all of these are third-order self-induced effects, that is the nonlinear polarizability with which they are connected is cubic in the propagating field and vibrates at (approximately) its frequency. 2013, Bruno Crosignani, “Self-Induced Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers: A Unified Approach”, in D.B. Ostrowsky, E. Spitz, editors, New Directions in Guided Wave and Coherent Optics, page 23:
   • The higher the injected carrier density, the stronger the self-confinement effect of carriers Silver et al. have predicted that lasing could occur even in type II structures; this has been shown experimentally at low temperature in InAsSb/lnAs multiple quantum well laser structure emitting in the midwavelength infrared region. 2012, Xavier Marie, Naci Balkan, Semiconductor Modeling Techniques, page 183:
   • The backbone of the DSA is a self-confinement of accelerated particles by scattering off various magnetic perturbations that particles drive by themselves while streaming ahead of the shock. 2014, André Balogh, Andrei Bykov, Peter Cargill, Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas, page 148:
   • Self-confinement and electrode engineering can then reduce the expected programming current increase. 2022, Andrea Redaelli, Fabio Pellizzer, Semiconductor Memories and Systems, page 254:

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es autoconfinamiento (Translations)