What does compartment mean?

Definitions for compartment
kəmˈpɑrt məntcom·part·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. compartmentnoun

    a space into which an area is subdivided

  2. compartmentnoun

    a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

Wiktionary

  1. compartmentnoun

    A room, or section, or chamber

  2. compartmentnoun

    One of the parts in which an area is subdivided.

  3. compartmentnoun

    Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

  4. Etymology: First attested 1564, from compartiment, from compartimento, from compartior, from com- + partior

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Compartmentnoun

    Division; separate part of a design.

    Etymology: compartiment, French.

    The square will make you ready for all manner of compartments, bases, pedestals, and buildings. Henry Peacham, on Drawing.

ChatGPT

  1. compartment

    A compartment is a separate section of a larger structure, such as a wardrobe, vehicle, or building, designed to keep different items, people, or functions divided and organized. It can be a physical part of an object or a theoretical division in areas like medicine or biology, defining separate units with specific roles or characteristics within a body or system.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Compartmentnoun

    one of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden

  2. Compartmentnoun

    one of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads

  3. Etymology: [F. compartiment, OF. compartir to divide. See Compart.]

Wikidata

  1. Compartment

    In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount, or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing. Care must be taken to distinguish true compartments from items upon which supporters are merely resting one or more feet, or, sometimes, mere heraldic badges or pure decoration under the shield, and, conversely, care must also be taken in very unusual cases such as the coat of arms of Belize, in which what may be taken to be a crest, the mahogany tree rising above the shield, is really part of the compartment. It is sometimes said to represent the land held by the bearer. As an official part of the blazon it is a comparatively late feature of heraldry, often derived from the need to have different supporters for different families or entities, although sometimes the compartment is treated in the blazon separately from the supporters.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Compartment

    kom-pärt′ment, n. a separate part or division of any enclosed space: a division of a railway carriage: a division of anything.—v.t. Compart′, to divide into parts. [Fr., from compartir—L. com, with, partīre, to part.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of compartment in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of compartment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of compartment in a Sentence

  1. Bill Ford:

    You pick up all that extra space where the engine compartment has been.

  2. Jim Ryan:

    Tamez says even if a scan shows an empty hidden compartment it could pay off down the road. The imager gives us the opportunity to, once we find that compartment, scan it. If its empty we never have to tell the bad guy that we found it and all we can do is start doing our research and putting lookouts on this particular vehicle so we can target it at a later time, said Tamez. Tamezsays it saves his team time, money, and officers lives. The alternative is paying for damages on a vehicle, the alternative is having your officers come in contact with fentanyl and possibly overdosing, theres just so many, so many secondary and tertiaryeffects that are negative that can be avoided with a device like this, said Tamez. IBM DITCHES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY, JOINS CALL FOR POLICE REFORMS Viken is constantly upgrading. Its latest invention, the Osprey-UVX, is an X-ray machine that scans the bottom of moving vehicles.Its expected to roll out later this year at the Laredo and Brownsville ports of entry. Officers will be able to scan a car instantly as it passes through their ports. Security technology company Viken Detection's latest invention is an under vehicle scanner called the Osprey-UVX which can detect hidden items stashed under cars. It's expected to be rolled out at the Southern Texas border later this year. It can scan moving vehicles as they drive over it (Viken Detection) You can stay in your vehicle and you can drive either over or through a portal and you will be able to get a complete image of the vehicle, said Ryan. Within the year Viken Detection hopes to take things even further by trialinga new device that can scanan entire vehicle as it crosses a port of entry. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Our goal is for CBP to go through these demonstrations over the next couple of months and by year-end they will be making their decision and we expect 2021 and beyond to be in installation mode getting these vehicle scanners all the way across the board.

  3. Eric McClure:

    Southwest Virginians told me that I had rhabdomyolysis. That put me on compartment syndrome and full kidney failure.

  4. European Union finance ministers:

    As of 2016, each participating member state will enter into a harmonized loan facility agreement with the Single Resolution Board (SRB), providing a national individual credit line to the SRB to back its national compartment in the SRF in case of possible funding shortfalls following resolution cases of banks of the Member State concerned.

  5. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department:

    The vehicle was fully involved with fire on arrival, and took a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extinguish, crews knocked the fire down, but the car kept re-igniting and off-gassing in the battery compartment. Working with the on-site wrecking yard personnel, the Tesla was moved on its side to gain access to the battery compartment underneath.

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