Section vs. Compartment — What's the Difference?

One of several components; a piece.

One of the parts or spaces into which an area is subdivided.

A subdivision of a written work.

A separate room, section, or chamber

(Law) A distinct portion or provision of a legal code or set of laws, often establishing a particular legal requirement

To compartmentalize

A distinct portion of a newspaper

A room, or section, or chamber

A distinct area of a town, county, or country

One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.

A land unit equal to one square mile (2.59 square kilometers), 640 acres, or 1/36 of a township.

(biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.

The act or process of separating or cutting, especially the surgical cutting or dividing of tissue.

(heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.

A thin slice, as of tissue, suitable for microscopic examination.

(anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.

A segment of a fruit, especially a citrus fruit.

(transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

Representation of a solid object as it would appear if cut by an intersecting plane, so that the internal structure is displayed.

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.

(Music) A group of instruments or voices in the same class considered as a division of a band, orchestra, or choir

One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

A class or discussion group of students taking the same course

A small space or subdivision for storage

A portion of railroad track maintained by a single crew.

A partitioned section or separate room within a larger enclosed area

An area in a train's sleeping car containing an upper and lower berth.

An army tactical unit smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad.

A unit of vessels or aircraft within a division of armed forces.

One of two or more vehicles, such as a bus or train, given the same route and schedule, often used to carry extra passengers.

The character (§) used in printing to mark the beginning of a section.

This character used as the fourth in a series of reference marks for footnotes.

(Informal) A cesarean section.

To separate or divide into parts.

To cut or divide (tissue) surgically.

To shade or crosshatch (part of a drawing) to indicate sections.

(Informal) To perform a cesarean section on.

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

A part of a document.

An act or instance of cutting.

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

(category theory) A right inverse.

(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.

(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.

The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.

(geology) A sequence of rock layers.

A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.

(UK) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character often used to denote such a division.

The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .

One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.

A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);

A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;

A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;

One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;

A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

A land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side

(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class

A small army unit usually having a special function

A specialized division of a large organization;

A segment of a citrus fruit;

The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

Divide into segments;