different between compartment vs biloculine
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): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?m?p??tm?nt/
- Hyphenation: com?part?ment
Noun
compartment (plural compartments)
- A room, or section, or chamber
- Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.
- 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
- engine compartment
Translations
Verb
compartment (third-person singular simple present compartments, present participle compartmenting, simple past and past participle compartmented)
- (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.
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biloculine
English
Adjective
biloculine (comparative more biloculine, superlative most biloculine)
- Having two chambers or compartments.
- (biology) Characteristic of species of foraminifers in the genus Biloculina, now principally in Pyrgo.
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