compartment

com·part·ment

any of the divisions into which a space is partitioned off
a separate section, part, division, or category

Origin of compartment

French compartiment from Italian compartimento from compartire, compart

compartmentalize

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compartment

noun

One of the parts or spaces into which an area is subdivided.
A separate room, section, or chamber: a storage compartment.

transitive verb

com·part·ment·ed, com·part·ment·ing, com·part·ments

To compartmentalize: “The information has not been compartmented” ( John H. Cushman, Jr. )

Related Forms:

com′part·ment′al
adjective

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Noun

(plural compartments)

A room, or section, or chamber
One of the parts in which an area is subdivided.
(biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

Origin

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”)

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