prevention

1. The act of preventing or impeding.
2. A hindrance; an obstacle.

noun

The act of preventing: determent, deterrence, forestallment, obviation, preclusion. See allow/prevent.

In disease control terms includes measures designed to prevent the introduction of a disease into areas where it does not already exist, and improve the resistance of the population and reduce the chances of the infection spreading, when the disease already exists in the population.

(DOD) 1. The security procedures undertaken by the public and private sectors in order to discourage terrorist acts. See alsoaantiterrorism. 2. In space usage, measures to preclude anadversary's hostile use of United States or third-party spacesystems and services. Prevention can include diplomatic,economic, and political measures. See also space control.

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Prevention refers to:

• Preventive medicine
• Hazard prevention, the process of risk study and elimination and mitigation in emergency management
• Risk prevention
• Risk management
• Preventive maintenance
• Crime prevention

• Prevention (album), an album by Scottish band De Rosa
• Prevention (magazine), a magazine about health in the United States
• Prevent (company), a textile company from Slovenia

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