English-French translations for compartment

• compartiment
  A l'heure actuelle, les réfrigérateurs n'ont pas qu'un seul compartiment. Today, refrigerators do not a have a single compartment.
  À une époque où les pays ne sont plus compartimentés, nous devons écouter avec beaucoup d'attention les protestations. At a time when there are no watertight compartments between countries, we need to listen very carefully to the uproar of events.
  Les nappes phréatiques, les bassins fluviaux et l’atmosphère ne connaissent ni les frontières administratives ni les frontières entre pays, car la planète ne fonctionne pas de manière compartimentée. Water tables, river basins and the atmosphere know no administrative or state boundaries, because the planet does not function in closed compartments.
• case
• spécialité
• terrasse

Definition of compartment

• A room, or section, or chamber
• One of the parts into which an area is subdivided
• A mound beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand

Examples

• Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

Related words

• compartmentalize
• compartmentalise
• compartmentalised
• compartmentalization
• compartmentalized
• compartmentalisation
• compartmentation
• compartmental
• decompartmentalise