compartment

English

Etymology

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”).

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɑːtmənt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: com‧part‧ment

Noun

compartment (plural compartments)

A room, or section, or chamber
Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.
- 2014 April 28, Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal, Home, Again!: A Novel of Identity, Self-Discovery, and Tragedy‎, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, OCLC 1124321729, page 313:
  This is a second-class ticket. And you're sitting in the first class!” “I'd no idea,” Haldiram said. “I didn't know what compartment was this.” And looking around, he asked, “Where does it say First Class? I still can't see it.
One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
(biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
(heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
(anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

Derived terms

compartment syndrome
engine compartment
glove compartment

Translations

chamber

Arabic: مَقْصُورَة‎ f (maqṣūra)
Belarusian: аддзяле́нне n (addzjaljénnje) (train), адсе́к m (adsjék), купэ́ n (kupé) (train)
Bulgarian: купе n (kupe), отделение (bg) n (otdelenie)
Catalan: compartiment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 車廂／车厢 (zh) (chēxiāng), 包房 (zh) (bāofáng)
Czech: oddělení (cs) n, (on a train) kupé (cs) n
Dutch: ruimte (nl) f
Esperanto: kompartimento
Finnish: osasto (fi), aitio (fi), loosi (fi), kammio (fi)
French: compartiment (fr) m
Galician: compartimento (gl) m
Georgian: განყოფილება (ganq̇opileba)
German: Abteil (de) n
Hindi: डिब्बा (hi) m (ḍibbā)
Hungarian: fülke (hu)
Japanese: 仕切り (しきり, shikiri), 区画 (ja) (くかく, kukaku)
Korean: 컴파트먼트 (keompateumeonteu)
Norwegian: kupé (no) m
Persian: کوپه‎ (fa) (kupe)
Polish: przedział (pl) m
Portuguese: compartimento (pt) m
Romanian: compartiment (ro) n
Russian: отделе́ние (ru) n (otdelénije), отсе́к (ru) m (otsék), купе́ (ru) n (kupé) (train)
Spanish: compartimiento (es) m
Swedish: avdelning (sv) c, kupé (sv) c
Turkish: kompartıman (tr)
Ukrainian: відді́лення n (viddílennja), відсі́к m (vidsík), купе́ n (kupé) (train)

part into which an area is subdivided

Afrikaans: kompartement, kompartemente pl
Bulgarian: отделение (bg) n (otdelenie)
Catalan: compartiment (ca) m
Esperanto: fako (eo)
Finnish: osa-alue (fi)
French: compartiment (fr) m
Galician: compartimento (gl) m
Irish: urrann f
Romanian: compartiment (ro) n, compartimente n pl
Russian: отделе́ние (ru) n (otdelénije), отсе́к (ru) m (otsék)
Spanish: compartimiento (es) m
Swedish: fack (sv) n

biochemistry: part of a protein

Finnish: jakso (fi)

heraldry: mound beneath the shield

Dutch: ondergrond (nl)
Finnish: postamentti
French: terrasse (fr)
German: Postament (de)
Italian: terrazza (it), zoccolo (it)
Polish: postument (pl)
Spanish: terraza (es)
Swedish: postament (sv) n

Verb

compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)

(transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.