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COMPARTMENTAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compartmental mean?
• COMPARTMENTAL (adjective)
The adjective COMPARTMENTAL has 1 sense:
1. divided up into compartments or categories
Familiarity information: COMPARTMENTAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divided up into compartments or categories
Synonyms:
compartmental; compartmentalised; compartmentalized
Context example:
most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized
Similar:
compartmented (divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units)
Derivation:
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)
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