Definitions
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- noun The act or process of
dividing acomplex task orstructure into smaller, often moremanageable pieces. - noun software The act of
dividing complex code into libraries with commonfunctionality to help make theprocess ofprogramming moremanageable andreusable .
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- noun the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- noun a mild state of dissociation
Etymologies
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Examples
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This compartmentalization is a unique feature of mainstream U.S. culture: Don't mix personal and work issues; my family is separate from my friends; my tennis friends do not necessarily have to know my classical music friends, and so on.
El Buen Patron 2002
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This compartmentalization is a unique feature of mainstream U.S. culture: Don't mix personal and work issues; my family is separate from my friends; my tennis friends do not necessarily have to know my classical music friends, and so on.
El Buen Patron 2002
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The intensity of my career coupled with my self-imposed mental compartmentalization is protection for me.
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One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist."
Mr. Goodbar Redux 2002
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One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist."
Mr. Goodbar Redux 2002
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PODESTA: I've never understood the word compartmentalization, quite honestly.
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And the further to the right on the scale, the less compartmentalization is possible between the supposed religious and non-religious aspects of one’s life.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010
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We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on "need to know."
How 9/11 Transformed the Intelligence Community James R. Clapper 2011
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Practicing methodological naturalism and then believing in superstition is called compartmentalization, not intellectual consistency.
Partial Knowlege, Totally Dangerous James F. McGrath 2009
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In a very real way “symbolic” refers to integration and “diabolic” refers to compartmentalization.
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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