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compartmentalized

compartmentalized is the simple past and past participle of compartmentalize.

Meaning of compartmentalize

Verb

compartmentalize (third-person singular simple present compartmentalizes, present participle compartmentalizing, simple past and past participle compartmentalized)

  1. (transitive) To separate something into different categories, or compartments.
    • In summary, we find the below listed empirical observations coming from our analysis of our Google hospital reviews ¶ The 11 identified valenced topics do not line up well with the standard way that the CMS and other surveys use to measure experiences, i.e., patients do not compartmentalize most of...2024 July 18, Nah Lee, Richard Staelin, “Patient text reviews and preference estimation”, in Marketing Letters, →DOI

Adjective

compartmentalized (comparative more compartmentalized, superlative most compartmentalized)

  1. Divided into compartments.
    Synonyms:
    compartmented

Synonyms of compartmentalized

Antonyms

Forms of compartmentalized

comparativemore compartmentalized
superlativemost compartmentalized

Words formed from compartmentalized

Questions about compartmentalized

What does compartmentalized mean?
Compartmentalized means divided into compartments.
What is compartmentalized the simple past and past participle of?
Compartmentalized is the simple past and past participle of compartmentalize.
What part of speech is compartmentalized?
Compartmentalized is an adjective.

Words near compartmentalized in the dictionary

  1. compartmentalists
  2. compartmentalizable
  3. compartmentalization
  4. compartmentalizations
  5. compartmentalize
  6. compartmentalized
  7. compartmentalizer
  8. compartmentalizers
  9. compartmentalizes
  10. compartmentalizing
  11. compartmentally

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