verb
- Separate into isolated compartments or categories.
- usage: "You cannot compartmentalize your life like this"
- synonyms: compartmentalize, compartmentalise, cut up
adjective
- Divided up into compartments or categories.
- usage: "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized"
- synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised
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