Usually means: Division into separate, distinct sections.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word compartmentation:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. compartmentation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. compartmentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compartmentation: Wiktionary
  4. compartmentation: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. compartmentation: Dictionary.com
  6. Compartmentation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. compartmentation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compartmentation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compartmentation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Compartmentation: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compartmentation)

noun:  Division into compartments; compartmentalization.
noun:  So as to prevent the spread of fire within a structure.
noun:  So as to prevent the spread of water (or rarely, another fluid) between otherwise watertight compartments (especially on a ship).
noun:  (military) The dissemination of information and knowledge between different people or organisations on a need-to-know basis, so as to reduce the risk of espionage should one person or organisation be compromised externally; compartmentalization.

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