compartmentalization
1. a mild state of dissociation • Syn: compartmentalisation • Derivationally related forms: compartmentalise (for: compartmentalisation), compartmentalize • Hypernyms: dissociation, disassociation 2. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type • Syn: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, assortment • Derivationally related forms: assort (for: assortment), compartmentalise (for: compartmentalisation), compartmentalize, classify (for: classification), categorize (for: categorization) • Hypernyms: grouping • Hyponyms: indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology
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