noun
1. a mild state of dissociation
• Syn: ↑compartmentalization
• Derivationally related forms: ↑compartmentalise, ↑compartmentalize (for: ↑compartmentalization)
• Hypernyms: ↑dissociation, ↑disassociation
2. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
• Syn: ↑categorization, ↑categorisation, ↑classification, ↑compartmentalization, ↑assortment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑assort (for: ↑assortment), ↑compartmentalise, ↑compartmentalize (for: ↑compartmentalization), ↑classify (for: ↑classification), ↑categorize (for: ↑categorization)
• Hypernyms: ↑grouping
• Hyponyms: ↑indexing, ↑reclassification, ↑relegation, ↑stratification, ↑taxonomy, ↑typology
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compartmentalizāˈtion or compartmentalisāˈtion noun
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Main Entry: ↑compartment
Useful english dictionary. 2012.