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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compartment \Com*part"ment\, n. [F. compartiment, OF. compartir to divide. See Compart.]
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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 was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work.
--Carew. (Shipbuilding) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A room, or section, or chamber 2 One of the parts in which an area is subdivided. 3 (context biochemistry English) part of a protein that serves a specific function. 4 (context heraldry English) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand. 5 (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
WordNet
n. a small space or subdivision for storage
a partitioned section or separate room within a larger enclosed area
Wikipedia
In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount (mount vert), 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.
Compartments can be simply defined as separate, different, adjacent cell populations, which upon juxtaposition, create a lineage boundary. This boundary prevents cell movement from cells from different lineages across this barrier, restricting them to their compartment. Subdivisions are established by morphogen gradients and maintained by local cell-cell interactions, providing functional units with domains of different regulatory genes, which give rise to distinct fates. Compartment boundaries are found across species. In the hindbrain of vertebrate embryos, rhobomeres are compartments of common lineage outlined by expression of Hox genes. In invertebrates, the wing imaginal disc of Drosophila provides an excellent model for the study of compartments. Although other tissues, such as the abdomen, and even other imaginal discs are compartmentalized, much of our understanding of key concepts and molecular mechanisms involved in compartment boundaries has been derived from experimentation in the wing disc of the fruit fly.
Compartment may refer to:
In pharmacokinetics, a compartment is a defined volume of body fluids. It is distinguished from anatomic compartments, which are bounded by fasciae. It is used in multi-compartment models.
In chemistry, a compartment is a part of a protein that serves a specific function.
There may be multiple compartments on one and the same protein. One example is the case of Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. This is the enzyme which catalyses Pyruvate decarboxylation, the reaction of Pyruvate with Coenzyme A and the major entry point into the TCA cycle:
Pyruvate + Coenzyme A + NAD ⇒ acetyl-CoA + NADH + H + COPyruvate dehydrogenase has three chemical compartments; E1 ( pyruvate decarboxylase), E2 ( dihydrolipoyl transacetylase) and E3 ( dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase). Each one of the compartments has its own specific function.
Category:Molecular biology
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 if the hull is damaged. Subdivision of a ship's hull into watertight compartments is called compartmentation.
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.