different between compartment vs compartmentalization

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?part?ment

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

1. A room, or section, or chamber

   Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

2. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Derived terms

• engine compartment

Translations

Verb

compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)

1. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

English

Alternative forms

• compartmentalisation

Etymology

compartmentalize +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m.p??(?)t.m?ntl?.a??ze?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

compartmentalization (countable and uncountable, plural compartmentalizations)

1. The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
2. (software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
3. (counter-espionage) The act of dividing tasks involving confidential information so that no one person is capable of leaking enough to be incriminating. Alternatively, it can involve distributing information in such a way that no individual knows the full extent or purpose of the task they have been given, hence, if they are captured or monitored, the enemy would not be able to obtain useful information from any given person.

Translations

Antonyms

• decompartmentalization