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compartment
  1. A room, or section, or chamber
  2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
  3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
  4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
  5. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “I only discovered our fridge had a freezer compartment six weeks ago.”
      “She worked to the eighth month and it tricked her into thinking she was in control, that she could open and shut the drawers of the different compartments of her life at will.”
compartmentalization
  1. The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
  2. (software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
  3. (counter-espionage) The act of dividing tasks involving confidential information so that no one person is capable of leaking enough to be incriminating. Alternatively, it can involve denying information to such an extent no one person knows the full extent or purpose of the task they have been given, so that if they are captured or monitored the enemy will not be able to obtain useful information from an individual person.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The compartmentalization that academics have allowed themselves to fall victim to is a catastrophe.”
      “It's occurred to me that I've been encouraging serious compartmentalization for all of my friends to make them happier.”
      “The compartmentalization of aiddriven responses into sectors, subsectors, or by theme has also, in the past, aggravated the problem.”
compartmentation
  1. division into compartments
  2. (military) Establishment and management of an organization so that information about the personnel, internal organization, or activities of one component is made available to any other component only to the extent required for the performance of assigned duties.
  3. (military) Effects of relief and drainage upon avenues of approach so as to produce areas bounded on at least two sides by terrain features such as woods, ridges, or ravines that limit observation or observed fire into the area from points outside the area. (JP 3-05.1)
  4. Examples:
    1. “It's a direct violation of basic tradecraft and the principle of compartmentation.”
      “But without effective compartmentation, a single, well-placed mole can trigger an intelligence leak of catastrophic proportions.”
      “In the whole plant, multicellular compartmentation is required for alkaloid biosynthesis.”
compartition
  1. (obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
  2. (obsolete) A division or compartment.
compartmentectomy
  1. (surgery) The surgical excision of an entire fascial compartment, usually as a treatment for soft tissue sarcomas.
compartmentalizer
  1. One who compartmentalizes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps McDaniels learned something as Belichick, the master compartmentalizer, kept those controversies from undermining the New England Patriots.”
compartmentalizations
compartmentalizers
  1. plural of compartmentalizer
compartmentations
  1. plural of compartmentation
compartitions
  1. plural of compartition
compartments
  1. plural of compartment
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The car had independent front suspension and featured spare wheel compartments in the front wings.”
      “Sources are telling me he really did stuff them as you say in compartments in the rear lavatory of the two planes.”
      “As in Simone's painting, all the carpets depicted consist of rows of octagonal or quadrilateral compartments.”
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