COMPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compartment mean? 

• COMPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun COMPARTMENT has 2 senses:

1. a space into which an area is subdivided

2. a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

  Familiarity information: COMPARTMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A space into which an area is subdivided

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("compartment" is a kind of...):

space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compartment"):

cell (any small compartment)

cubbyhole; pigeonhole (a small compartment)

call box; letter box; PO Box; POB; Post-Office box (a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for)

Derivation:

compartmentalise; compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("compartment" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compartment"):

bay (a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital)

well (an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps)

stall (a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed)

roomette (a small private compartment for one on a sleeping car)

pilothouse; wheelhouse (an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated)

module (detachable compartment of a spacecraft)

automobile trunk; boot; luggage compartment; trunk (compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools)

glove compartment (compartment on the dashboard of a car)

drawing room (a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet)

couchette (a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping)

cockpit (compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft)

car; gondola (the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant)

car; elevator car (where passengers ride up and down)

cable car; car (a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway)

cabinet; locker; storage locker (a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock)

cabin (small room on a ship or boat where people sleep)

cabin (the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried)

cab (a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits)

box; loge (private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance)

box (separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people)

bay (a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose)

Derivation:

compartmental (divided up into compartments or categories)

compartmentalise; compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment protein 3, may play a role in the mediation of both protein sorting and the cellular response to misfolded proteins.

(ERGIC3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The lesion consists of a localized hyperplasia of the deep epithelial compartment of the oxyntic mucosa, with variable degrees of cystic dilatation.

(Fundic Gland Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)

Gap junctions contain intercellular channels that allow direct communication between the cytosolic compartments of adjacent cells.

(Gap Junction Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A condition characterized by fluid accumulation in two or more anatomic compartments in the fetus.

(Hydrops Fetalis, NCI Thesaurus)

Ndrp-1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that tags ErbB3 for degradation in non-lysosomal compartments.

(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The portion of drug that is not taken into the vascular compartment is available to cross the dura.

(Epidural Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Any subcellular or molecular event, process, or condition involved in translocation of a drug from one site or compartment to another.

(Drug Transport Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The endosomal compartment that fuses with endocytic vesicles and sorts the plasma membrane components from any internalized molecules that are targeted for lysosomal degradation.

(Early Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)

A membrane bound cytoplasmic compartment that drives molecular traffic between the plasma membrane and lysosome.

(Endosome, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, plays a role in the regulation of insulin-like growth factor and in inhibition processes in the extravascular tissue compartment.

(IGFBP3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)