compartmentalization

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the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

a mild state of dissociation

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It is compartmentalization of India into rigidly separated rural and urban settlements that has been the worst legacy of the colonial system of local-self government. Rajiv Gandhi

Defining when income occurs Since a central tenet of the flat tax is to minimize the compartmentalization of incomes into myriad special or sheltered cases, a vexing problem is deciding when income occurs. Source: Internet

But for decades afterward, they represented pregnant pauses on the continuum of compartmentalization widely practiced by female athletes, one in which a moneymaking career occupied one end, and maternity the other. Source: Internet

In these large vehicles, an engineering concept called compartmentalization -- which translates, in practice, to strong, closely spaced seats and energy-absorbing seat backs -- protects children from crashes. Source: Internet

Now, expediency and convenience decree compartmentalization and sectionalism. Source: Internet

Cell compartmentalization The nuclear envelope allows the nucleus to control its contents, and separate them from the rest of the cytoplasm where necessary. Source: Internet

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