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What does compartmentalization mean?

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  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 denying information to such an extent no one person knows the full extent or purpose of the task they have been given, so that if they are captured or monitored the enemy will not be able to obtain useful information from an individual person.
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Sectoral compartmentalization, especially in the case of recently established offices, will have to be overcome.
In a number of operations excessive compartmentalization significantly impaired response to protection challenges.
Add to this a UK music press obsessed with novelty in the post-punk era, and you've got a microwave recipe for compartmentalization via xenophile adoration.
All of these changes lead to technological complexity and a compartmentalization of expertise in IT departments.
When compared with cells of other eukaryotic organisms, plant cells have a high degree of metabolic compartmentalization.
The compartmentalization that academics have allowed themselves to fall victim to is a catastrophe.

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