The act or state of imprisoning; confinement in a prison or jail; imprisonment.
From Latin carcer (prison) plus the suffix -ation, creating a formal noun meaning 'the state or act of being imprisoned.'
While 'incarceration' became the standard English term, 'carceration' appears in older texts and shows how the Latin root was directly translated into English before modern forms took over!
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