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containerisation

containerisation is the alternative spelling of containerization.

Meaning of containerization

Noun

containerization (countable and uncountable, plural containerizations)

  1. The process of containerizing; the use of containers in shipping and transport, especially shipping containers.
    • Again, because containerisation had yet to arrive, we loaded and unloaded the lot by hand.2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 79
  2. Software virtualization at the level of the operating system.
    • These cloud deployments become simple due to well-defined and matured cloud technologies such as containerization, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, etc.2022, Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman, Harihara Subramanian, Cognitive Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Platforms, and Use Cases, CRC Press, →ISBN

Forms of containerisation

pluralcontainerisations

Origin of containerisation

From container + -isation.

Words that rhyme with containerisation

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about containerisation

What is containerisation the alternative spelling of?
Containerisation is the alternative spelling of containerization.

Words near containerisation in the dictionary

  1. container wagons
  2. containerboard
  3. containerboards
  4. containerful
  5. containerfuls
  6. containerisation
  7. containerisations
  8. containerise
  9. containerised
  10. containerises
  11. containerising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: containerisation (page history and authors); containerization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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