0 past simple and past participle of compartmentalize
1 to separate something into parts and not allow those parts to mix together:
The extent of pluralism fell short of its pure form and thus the system was called 'patterned', 'canalized', or 'compartmentalized' competition or pluralism.
Fillers are incompatible with a modularized (or at least compartmentalized) grammar which has distinct clitic function words with distinct syntactic and morphological functions.
As competition for grazing, arable land and trade goods increased, he identifies changes in activity location within households that may reflect increasingly compartmentalized gender roles.
Policy and history were not to be compartmentalized.
If an organism is to grow beyond these limitations of size, it will naturally break itself up into a compartmentalized or cellular arrangement.
Being at the crossroads of phonology, morphology and syntax, fillers resist a rigidly compartmentalized view of language.
These compartmentalized agents indicated complex development starting from an early age and continuing through adolescence and adulthood.
Cells of both tissue types are turgid and compartmentalized, which is a sign of being alive.
