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compartmentalizing

compartmentalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about compartmentalizing

What is compartmentalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Compartmentalizing is the present participle and gerund of compartmentalize.

Words near compartmentalizing in the dictionary

  1. compartmentalize
  2. compartmentalized
  3. compartmentalizer
  4. compartmentalizers
  5. compartmentalizes
  6. compartmentalizing
  7. compartmentally
  8. compartmentation
  9. compartmentations
  10. compartmentectomy
  11. compartmented

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