compartment meaning
ENWCompartment
- Compartment may refer to:
- NounPLcompartmentsPREcom-SUF-ment
- A room, or section, or chamber.
- "Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class carriage."
- One of the parts in 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.
- A room, or section, or chamber.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality.
- The microdialyser has a micro-sized cell culture chamber that is 200 picoliters (pL) in volume to approximate the ~5pL volume of the membrane-bound compartment of human macrophages.
- It'll be in the hidden compartment of my bag when I go through the line, so don't worry, I'll be able to smuggle it past.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Then, the particles are moved through the intestinal tract, which consists of the foregut, midgut and hindgut, where several lignocellulolytic enzymes are secreted in each compartments.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of compartment in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "compartment" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.