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Definition of Compartments
1. compartment [v] - See also: compartment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compartments
Literary usage of Compartments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"But the radii, from growing against rectangular indentations, or rather furrows,
in the opposed compartments, come to be set a little inwards; ..."
2. A Text Book of Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1909)
"From (20); deliver hutches from first two compartments to (47), hutches from
third compartments to (15), side discharges from first two compartments to (47) ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Suppose the river divided into a number of compartments by equidistant ...
When wires or ropes can be stretched across the stream, the compartments can be ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"The left auricle was partially divided into two compartments by a broad fibrous
band, which started from the auricular septum where it was continuous with ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"These compartments are described by Britton in his " Beauties of England and
Wales," and by Cotton in the fifteenth volume of the ..."
6. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"Here the number of supports in the outer perimeter of the gallery had been doubled,
so that there were alternately rectangular and triangular compartments. ..."
7. The Electrical Engineer (1893)
"No appreciable heat is given ofl by the wires, whereas if steam is used, the
compartments through which ic passes may sometimes be overheated, ..."
8. Food and feeding by Henry Thompson (1898)
"Secondly, cooking by dry heat in hot air—(a) Baking—In dry compartments heated
... Cooking in closed vessels, ovens or other compartments in dry heated air, ..."
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