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US
/kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
]
[ UK /kəmpˈɑːtmənt/ ]
[ UK /kəmpˈɑːtmənt/ ]
NOUN
- a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
- a space into which an area is subdivided
How To Use compartment In A Sentence
- More easily digestible food remains in the compartment for less time. Times, Sunday Times
- The compartments have the added protection of three to four cross-bars running through all the bogies - to prevent robbery, snatching or the entry of miscreants through the window.
- Indeed, imagine a box divided by a partition into two compartments.
- He leaned over and reached into the glove compartment, his forearm accidentally brushing across her thigh.
- It can be subdivided to create custom compartments for the ideal organization of tools, sets, kits and outfits.
- I told him the unvarnished truth except for the part about you quivering stark naked with cold in the shower compartment. CORMORANT
- It has now given its response, in which it also said the partition identified in the fire report was ‘not designated as a compartmental wall requiring double sheets of plasterboard to provide 60-minute fire resistance’.
- The collision allowed tons of water to flood several compartments in the forward section of the ship, including missile and gun magazines and a junior rates' mess.
- Each compartment had three telephone dials, one for the units, one for the tens and the other for the hundreds.
- The case is divided into four separate compartments.
