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compartmentalized is an adjective meaning "divided up into compartments or categories". It carries one recorded sense.
divided up into compartments or categories
“most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for compartmentalized come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.