Compartmentalization
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Compartmentalization or compartmentalisation (UK) (com-part-ment + ali-sation) refers to an action or process of organising diverse populations into discrete groups, or "compartments" —each of which has the properties of boundary and isolation, but also has some limited or controlled relation with other parts. The term refers to the concept of organised and related grouping as an abstract process, which can be activated intrinsically (ie. by self-determination, biological process; Compartmentalization in biology) or extrinsically (ie. by direction).
Psychology
Compartmentalizing is the act of splitting an idea or concept up into (sometimes more or less arbitrary) parts, and trying to enforce thought processes which are inhibiting attempts to allow these parts to mix together again in an attempt to simplify things.The reason for this attempt of thought control is often to make it more easy to single out certain individuals, or to inhibit certain ideas. One example is the idea of gender, splitting gender into exclusive male and female traits, ignoring the fact that sometimes gender is not that easily determined.
Computer science
Compartmentalization in computer science may refer to computer program design techniques which divide different functions into different files, classes, or otherwise isolated stretches of code. abstraction is a similar programming concept. It may also refer to run-time protection, in which running programs are isolated from each other by various barriers including limitations imposed by the executing hardware, the kernel or calling code, or devices on the network.Engineering
'Compartmentalization is the general technique of separating two or more parts of a system in order to prevent malfunctions from spreading between or among them.See also
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