Usually means: Sectioned space for specific use.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word compartment:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. compartment: Merriam-Webster
  2. compartment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compartment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compartment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compartment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compartment, compartment: Wordnik
  7. compartment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Compartment: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. compartment: Wiktionary
  10. compartment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. compartment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. compartment: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Compartment, compartment: Dictionary.com
  14. compartment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. compartment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Compartment (anatomy), Compartment (development), Compartment (heraldry), Compartment (pharmacokinetics), Compartment (ship), Compartment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Compartment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. compartment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. compartment: Rhymezone
  20. compartment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. compartment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. compartment: FreeDictionary.org
  23. compartment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. compartment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. compartment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. compartment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compartment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  3. compartment: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compartment: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See compartmental as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.
noun:  One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
noun:  (biochemistry) The part of a protein that serves a specific function.
noun:  (heraldry) 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.
noun:  (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

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