"compartmentation" meaning in English

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          "text": "The fire spread rapidly after the building's compartmentation failed.",
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          "ref": "1958, Gunner's Mate 3: Navy Training Courses, Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 191:",
          "text": "The reason for this compartmentation is FLAMETIGHT INTEGRITY. The purpose should be obvious: Propellent powder in flammable silk bags is always dangerous; compartmentation confines flame and explosive gas to the space in which it originates.",
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        "Division into compartments; compartmentalization.",
        "So as to prevent the spread of fire within a structure."
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          "text": "The Titanics compartmentation' did not stop water from entering rooms.",
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          "ref": "1937, “Naval Expansion Program”, in Hearing Before the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States: Government Printing Office, page 238:",
          "text": "Compartmentation of the hull.—It has become the accepted practice in conventional rigid-airship construction to to subdivide the buoyant gas into numerous independent containers[…]",
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        "Division into compartments; compartmentalization.",
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          "ref": "1956, Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, volume 1, Washington: Joint Commission on Atomic Energy:",
          "text": "Nevertheless the principles of compartmentation of information and need to know are essential to secrecy.",
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        "(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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