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apartment

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See also:Apartment

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Alternative forms

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  • APT(The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
  • apt.

Etymology

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FromFrenchappartement, fromItalianappartamento, fromSpanishapartamiento(“separation, seclusion”). Seeapart.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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apartment (pluralapartments)

  1. (chiefly Canada,US, Australia, Philippines) A completedomicile occupying onlypart of abuilding, especially one forrent; aflat.
    apartmentdwellers
  2. (archaic) Asuite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including abedroom.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis ofLilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […],→OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput),page69:
      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 splendidapartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
  3. (obsolete) Adivision of anenclosure that isseparate from others; acompartment
    • 1883 April 23,Slawsonv. 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 twoapartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upperapartment. 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 lowerapartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
  4. (computing, COM) Aconceptualspace used forseparation in thethreadingarchitecture.Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use aproxy.

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Translations

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domicile occupying part of a building
archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile
obsolete: division of an enclosure
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