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n. The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.

n. The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.

n. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

n. a mild state of dissociation

"This compartmentalization is a unique feature of mainstream U.S. culture: Don't mix personal and work issues; my family is separate from my friends; my tennis friends do not necessarily have to know my classical music friends, and so on."

decompartmentalization   

dissociation    disassociation   

hurtfulness    newsmaker    thatwimax    depolarization    miosis    amass    withdraw    speedup    shareholding    pleomorphism