compartmentalized
- adjective
- /kəmˈpɑːrtˌmɛntəlaɪzd/
- In a compartmentalized education system, subjects are taught separately without integration.
- very compartmentalized
We just want to work on new cutting edge stock and and it's also compartmentalized on on the most part.
- We just want to work on new cutting edge stock and and it's also compartmentalized on on the most part.
- But what they're doing through this compartmentalized system is they're passing over through the generations knowledge that they keep from the population.
- It could be because they're current compartmentalized, But you're saying private intelligence institutions are trying to to make progress on this.
Examples
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After fifteen years' effort, "American Studies" are still conducted almost exclusively in a traditional, compartmentalized way with little concern for American culture.
Academic text (1997) -
The human mind, like the human being, is not compartmentalized into humanities, Arts and Sciences, or other specialties.
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Many academic disciplines generate knowledge and techniques for solving issues and problems confronted by complex, highly specialized, and compartmentalized contemporary nation-states and communities.
Academic text (2007) -
Curriculum is organized into unrelated, compartmentalized, and trivialized courses that often have no connection to students' lives (Lightfoot 1983).
Academic text (1991) -
The company's departments are highly compartmentalized, which makes collaboration difficult.
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His thinking is often compartmentalized, making it hard for him to connect personal and professional life.
Synonyms
Having separate parts that join together or work by themselves
Divided into smaller sections like boxes or rooms
Viewing a group or system as separate, independent parts rather than a whole
Divided into separate small rooms or spaces
Organized into separate parts with little connection
Divided into parts to keep things separate, for example a plate with compartments
A system with separate parts that work on their own
Having many small chambers inside, like a cyst or tomato
Divided into many small separate chambers, often in a lump or cyst
Not joined together as one group or system
To keep groups or information separate so they do not share knowledge
Placed into groups with the same features
Divided into more than two groups
Relates to dividing something into parts
Divided into separate parts or sections
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
Antonyms
How Separate
Surface Forms
Morphology
compartmentalized = compartmentalize (transparent) = compartment + al + ize + ed
The relation between 'compartment' and 'compartmentalize' (and thus 'compartmentalized') follows regular derivation: to make into compartments.
Etymology
Compartmentalized comes from compartment, which is built on the simple word part meaning 'piece' or 'part'. So to compartmentalize something is to put it into separate 'parts' or boxes so they do not mix.