compartment
A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.
Example
“Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.”
Other meanings
One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
The part of a protein that serves a specific function.
A kind of
- space
Kinds of compartment
- cell
- call box
Related words
- driver's compartment
- biocompartment
- compartmentable
- compartmental
- compartmentation
- compartmentectomy
- compartmentful
- compartmentize
- compartmentless
- compartmentlike
- intercompartment
- microcompartment
Word history
From Latin "compartior".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “compartment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.