compartmentalization
pronunciation
How to pronounce compartmentalization in British English:
UK [kɒmpɑ:tmentəlaɪ'zeɪʃən]
How to pronounce compartmentalization in American English:
US [kɒmpɑtmentəlaɪ'zeɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- a mild state of dissociation
- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Word Origin
- compartmentalization (n.)
- 1923, from compartmentalize + -ation.
Example
- 1. Sub-areas compartmentalization of changjiang estuary based on the natural geographical characteristics .
- 2. The compartmentalization of these fields has hampered efforts to effectively control or prevent the emergence and spread of diseases that move among species , which together represent approximately 60 percent of all infectious organisms .
- 3. An intelligence community hobbled , as the post shows , by a toxic mixture of secrecy , compartmentalization , turf rivalry , and tremendous duplication of effort is further bedevilled by a problem familiar to every computer addict : too much information .
- 4. Intracellular homeostasis for zinc is achieved through the coordinate regulation of specific transportersengaged in zinc influx , efflux , andintracellular compartmentalization .
- 5. Because of the compartmentalization of memory in the brain-the storage of different aspects of a memory in different areas-the careful application of pkmzeta synthesis inhibitors and other chemicals that interfere with reconsolidation should allow scientists to selectively delete aspects of a memory .
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