Segregation vs Compartmentalization - What's the difference?
segregation | compartmentalization |
The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
(rfc-sense) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
(mineralogy) Separation]] from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the [[crystallize, crystallizing process.
(politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
(software) The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.