Definition of "compartmentalized" [compartmentalized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalize. (verb)
• Divided into compartments (adjective)

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• "Did you think the blogsphere was cozily compartmentalized from the real world? mood: Sabre tonight music: Rolling Stones"
• "We decided to tape every experience that I had and that before the taping -- this is audio tape -- we took all of the documents, the notebooks, the papers, the things I had saved throughout my 25-year military experience and we "compartmentalized" -- we envisioned we would be writing 18 chapters."
• "And what the authorities are particularly concerned about now is that, is there a separate cell, one that's been compartmentalized, that is not directly connected to this one, but, nevertheless, had similar instruction and an intention to carry a similar type of attack?"