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noun
Division into compartments or parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
A defense mechanism in which thoughts and feelings that seem to conflict are kept separated or isolated from each other in the mind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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noun
The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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noun
The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
The dissemination of information and knowledge between different people or organisations on a need-to-know basis, so as to reduce the risk of espionage should one person or organisation be compromised externally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, assortment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grouping
Narrower terms: indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology
noun
a mild state of dissociation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: compartmentalisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dissociation, disassociation
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *perh3-der.? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Latin partiō Latin partior Latin compartīrībor. Italian compartire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Italian -mento Italian compartimentobor. Middle French compartimentder. English compartment English -al English compartmental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English compartmentalize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English compartmentalization From compartmentalize + -ation.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
