Definition of quarantines:
(n) :
A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
(v) :
(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
(v) :
(transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
(n) :
(figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
(n) :
(computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc.
(n) :
(computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.