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Remark about piece or section
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compartment
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads . It is analogous to a room within a building, and may provide watertight subdivision of the ship's hull important in retaining buoyancy ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compartment \Com*part"ment\, n. [F. compartiment, OF. compartir to divide. See Compart .] 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. In the midst ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small space or subdivision for storage a partitioned section or separate room within a larger enclosed area
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French compartiment "part partitioned off" (16c.), through Italian compartimento , from Late Latin compartiri "to divide," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + partis , genitive of pars "part" (see part (n.)).
Usage examples of compartment.
And I explained about the deal Evans and I had agreed on, all the time conscious of the engineer working his way into the afterpart of the engine compartment.
The light was poor, but Longarm could see that the Anasazi had used logs to cover their rock-walled compartments, and then had filled in the roof cracks with mud mixed with leaves, grass, and bark, which had, in turn, been covered by a deep layer of rock and dirt.
He left the room, which was full of thoughts of contagion and monstrosity and all kinds of panicked jumble, through the zigzag of a wall, and worked his way into the next compartment.
My compartment in the senior officers quarters at Arkhangelsk base were almost comparable to those I would have been afforded in a U.
It has compartments and upper berths where Vulia and you can stretch out to rest at night.
There were two compartments of four berths each, and four of two berths each.
Now he looked out at Tony Casaway, he thought about Bigfoot in his airless compartment, and he shivered.
From a compartment in the container he took a biosensor, an instrument so sensitive that at five hundred meters it registered strongly the cellular metabolism of a moth.
The caravan made an ideal cache for weapons and explosives, too, in the compartments under the floor that Denny, with his boatbuilding skills, had built.
She lifted the cover of the small compartment that held spare brushes, and reached under the strip of felt that lined it.
With a few expert pushes and tugs, Jassilane propelled himself out of the opening and turned on his checkline to collect the tool pack from a stowage compartment that had opened alongside the hatch.
Jassilane propelled himself out of the opening and turned on his checkline to collect the tool pack from a stowage compartment that had opened alongside the hatch.
Without the internal armored bulkheads and cofferdams, the separate, parallel control runs, and redundant circuit breakers of military design, there was little to stop the train wreck of induced component failures, and a chain reaction of shorting, arcing superconductor rings raced through the compartment.
He pushes through the first-class sections and spots Cordula and her mother in a full compartment.
Then he opened the port covers, letting the angry sunlight sweep through the compartment.