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==English== |
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* {{sense|abbreviated}} APT {{qualifier|The US Postal Service prefers this variant ''APT''}} |
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Revision as of 18:42, 22 January 2017
See also: Apartment
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviated): APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant APT)
- (abbreviated): Apt.
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French appartement; compare with Italian appartamento, from appartare (“to separate, set apart”); all from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ad + pars 'part'. See apart.
Pronunciation
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Noun
apartment (plural apartments)
- A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
- apartment dwellers
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
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- 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.
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- (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
- 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....
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- (computing, COM) 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.
Synonyms
- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
Derived terms
See also
Translations
domicile occupying part of a building
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archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile
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obsolete: division of an enclosure
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