0 present participle of compartmentalize
1 to separate something into parts and not allow those parts to mix together:
The notion of the persona has value for historians wary of compartmentalizing scientific activity as separate from the rest of a life.
I am not in favour of compartmentalizing this profession by erecting an artificial barrier to access, and the report says the same thing.
Caveolins may act as scaffolding proteins within caveolar membranes by compartmentalizing and concentrating signaling molecules.
This was an important step away from the historic precedent of compartmentalizing the functions of the house into separate rooms.
By compartmentalizing glycolysis inside of the glycosome, the cell can be more successful.
Another strategy was building only one floor or excessively compartmentalizing each floor.
Print exists by virtue of the static separation of functions and fosters a mentality that gradually resists any but a separative and compartmentalizing or specialist outlook.
