English noun: compartmentalization | |||
1. | compartmentalization (state) a mild state of dissociation | ||
Synonyms | compartmentalisation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | disassociation, dissociation | ||
2. | compartmentalization (act) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | ||
Synonyms | assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grouping | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology | ||