containerization

containerization

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Etymology tree
English container
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English containerization

    From container + -ization.

    Noun

    containerization (countable and uncountable, plural containerizations)

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

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