Definition of "compartmentalization" []

• The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces. (noun)
• The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable. (noun)

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• "This compartmentalization is a unique feature of mainstream U.S. culture: Don't mix personal and work issues; my family is separate from my friends; my tennis friends do not necessarily have to know my classical music friends, and so on."
• "The intensity of my career coupled with my self-imposed mental compartmentalization is protection for me."
• "One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist.""