compartment
Meaning of compartment
noun
- A room, or section, or chamber
Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.
- One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
- Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
- A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
- A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
verb
To arrange in separate compartments.
Information about compartment
- The plural form of compartment is: compartments.
- Languages in which compartment is used:
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Hyphenation of compartment
com-part-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- compartment is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of compartment
- French: case
- Spanish: casillero, compartimiento
- German: Fach
- Italian: scompartimento, scomparto
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