Usually means: Complete and independent in itself.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word self-contained:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-contained: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-contained: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-contained: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-contained, self-contained: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-contained: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Contained, Self-contained, self-contained: Wordnik
  7. self-contained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-contained: Wiktionary
  9. self-contained: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-contained: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-contained: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-contained: Dictionary.com
  13. self-contained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Self-contained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. self-contained: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. self-contained: Rhymezone
  17. Self-contained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. self-contained: Free Dictionary
  19. self-contained: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. self-contained: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-contained: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-contained: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See self-containedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself.
adjective:  (of a person) Wrapped up in oneself; reserved.

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