The word "compartmentalization" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the act of separating something into smaller, more distinct parts. For example, "The company adopted a strategy of compartmentalization to better manage its workforce."
Unlike the easier compartmentalization of my patients' hostility, I find it much harder to compartmentalize my daughter's behavior as being simply a function of her stage of development.
The peculiar nature identified with "Balkanization"—that is, fragmentation of ethnic groups derives in part from the compartmentalization brought about by the mountainous relief.
However, something about the city balked at easy compartmentalization. Instead of Trainspotting clones, Edinburgh threw up a bewildering variety of writers working in very different styles and with different intentions.
Utilizing mass-produced materials and equipment, mostly developed for commercial buildings, the Prairie architects discarded elaborate compartmentalization and detailing for bold, plain walls, roomy family living areas, and perimeter heating below broad glazed areas.
This compartmentalization was an essential characteristic that distinguishes Romanesque architecture from its Carolingian and Ottonian predecessors.
Since animal tissues are in general simpler to digest than plant tissues, the carnivore's dependence on a diet with a high proportion of meat has led to less-complex compartmentalization of the stomach and a decrease in the length and folding (and therefore surface area) of the intestine.
When compared with cells of other eukaryotic organisms, plant cells have a high degree of metabolic compartmentalization.
Muscular movement is aided by the compartmentalization of the segment coelomic fluid, confined by the segment walls, provides a substance against which the muscles can work.
This psychological compartmentalization has its brilliant correlative in Derek McLane's gorgeous set, a sort of gargantuan Joseph Cornell box of discreetly arranged bric-a-brac — chairs, bureaus, trunks, stuffed animals, lampshades, and dim lights, dominated just off center by a half-lit neon sign saying "Vacancy".
It's a profession for people whose personality disorders make them adept at exploiting the personality disorders of others, who possess the compartmentalization skills of those shrinks who rubber-stamp torture techniques for the C.I.A. (Eating disorders? Daddy's death? An on-set date rape? It's all fodder for the story — or something to be covered up).
Wang had trouble with that kind of compartmentalization, and he began to criticize the government and support activists who called, in particular, for China's government to enforce its own laws.
