Meaning of apartment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
   Australia, Canada, Philippines, US
2. Floor, apartment.
3. A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat
4. A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
   archaic
5. A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom
6. A room within a house.
7. A room within a house
8. A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
   obsolete
9. A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
10. A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
11. A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy

Equivalents

Examples

“apartment dwellers”

“I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.”

“By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.”

“For the matter of that, it is difficult to make a nice, genteel sitting-room out of an apartment of which the principal features are a sink and a big gas stove.”

“1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664, The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....”

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