The Collaborative International Dictionary
compartmental \compartmental\ compartmentalized \compartmentalized\adj. 1. divided up into compartments or categories.
Wiktionary
divided into compartments v
(en-past of: compartmentalize)
WordNet
adj. divided up into compartments or categories; "most sciences have become woefully compartmentalized" [syn: compartmental, compartmentalised]
Usage examples of "compartmentalized".
Containment was activated after hours, and if an intruder removed a piece of artwork, compartmentalized exits would seal around that gallery, and the thief would find himself behind bars even before the police arrived.
I’ll sign off on any directive that makes sense, and that is compartmentalized to the point of protecting our involvement.
The information he's brought us is compartmentalized Top Secret -there are to be no notes taken, and no minutes kept.
The project was reportedly compartmentalized and classified under a "Nuclear Weapons" category by President Reagan.
Were their agents so compartmentalized that they couldn't put two and two together?
While McVeigh, Hussaini, and their pals parked the Ryder truck in front of the Murrah Building, the real bombers were the third component of the compartmentalized operation.
It was pseudo-terrorism, perpetrated by compartmentalized covert operators for the purposes of state police power.
Motherless dog, she thought, seething, then compartmentalized that problem to deal with the more dangerous one before her.
After that first awful day he had compartmentalized Koiko and locked it tight.
That secret is protected by an intricate system of compartmentalized knowledge, and although the Priory brotherhood is very large, only four members at any given time know where the Grail is hidden—the Grand Master and his three sénéchaux.
All stored information had a security rating and, depending on the level of secrecy, was accessible to government officials on a compartmentalized basis.
Lockheed engineers downloaded compartmentalized blueprints of new weaponry.
Depending on their authorization sequence, they were permitted access to their own compartmentalized zones.
It's an entire edifice, an incredibly baroque and compartmentalized infrastructure which, for all intents and purposes, was directly designed by Miranda the First.
And others have been newly created, much more secret, much more compartmentalized, much more ambitious.