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Definition of: self-contained
(self′kən·tānd′) adjective
1. Keeping one's thoughts and feelings to oneself; uncommunicative; impassive.
2. Exercising self–control.
3. Complete and independent; bearing its own motor, as a machine; mounted on its own boiler, as a steam engine.
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