compartment

About 5.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

   Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

2. noun One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
3. noun The part of a protein that serves a specific function.
4. noun A mound (often of grass), shelf (of e.g. wall) or other thing beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
5. noun A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
6. verb To arrange in separate compartments.

Similar words

compartmentalized segment sharing environment ambient enclosure machinery booth envelope room

Often followed by

of and is in syndrome to with was for

Word family

compartmental compartmented compartmenting compartments