compartmentalization

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compartmentalization - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  compartmentalization
      n 1: a mild state of dissociation [syn: compartmentalization,
           compartmentalisation]
      2: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of
         the same type [syn: categorization, categorisation,
         classification, compartmentalization,
         compartmentalisation, assortment]