1. self-contained - Adjective
2. self-contained - Adjective Satellite
Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself.
Source: Webster's dictionaryself contained
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. Christopher Meloni
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. Swami Sivananda
Listen up-there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that. Haruki Murakami
The most temperate of persons is the one who controls hismself, and in doubtful events is self-contained. Hasan al-Askari
Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing. Poul Anderson
Islam is a complete, self-contained ideology which regards all aspects of our existence-moral and physical, spiritual and intellectual, personal and communal-as parts of the indivisible whole which we call "human life." Muhammad Asad