Noun compartmentalization has 2 senses
  1. compartmentalization, compartmentalisation - a mild state of dissociation
    --1 is a kind of dissociation, disassociation
    Derived form: verb compartmentalize1
  2. categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
    --2 is a kind of grouping
    --2 has particulars:
     indexing; reclassification; relegation; stratification; taxonomy; typology
    Derived form: verb compartmentalize1
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