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