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compartmentalize

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Etymology

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From compartmental +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɒmpɑː(ɹ)tˈmɛnt(ə)laɪz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /kəmˌpɑɹtˈmɛntəlˌaɪz/, /kəmpɑɹtˈmɛntl̩ˌaɪz/
  • Hyphenation: com‧part‧men‧tal‧ize

Verb

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compartmentalize (third-person singular simple present compartmentalizes, present participle compartmentalizing, simple past and past participle compartmentalized)

  1. (transitive) To separate something into different categories, or compartments.
    • 2024 July 18, Nah Lee, Richard Staelin, “Patient text reviews and preference estimation”, in Marketing Letters, →DOI:
      In summary, we find the below listed empirical observations coming from our analysis of our Google hospital reviews.
      1. The 11 identified valenced topics do not line up well with the standard way that the CMS and other surveys use to measure experiences, i.e., patients do not compartmentalize most of their comments to specific staff—doctors, nurses, etc.—or even departments.
    • 2024 August 1, Hongying Ma, Jian Qu, Zicheng Pang, Jian Luo, Min Yan, Weixin Xu, Haihui Zhuang, Linxin Liu, Qiang Qu, “Super-enhancer omics in stem cell”, in Molecular Cancer, volume 23, →DOI, article 153:
      Mediators and co-activators BRD4 and MED1 form phase-separated droplets at SEs that compartmentalize and concentrate the transcription apparatus, suggesting a significant role for co-activators in this process and revealing the regulation mechanisms of function and structure of SE involved in the control of hub cell identity genes.
    • 2024 August 13, Daniel Kochis, “Russia’s links with Iran are growing stronger”, in Politico‎[1]:
      Russia and Iran see the wars against Israel and Ukraine as indelibly linked — and we in the West would be foolish to compartmentalize them.

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