English Dictionary

apartment

/əˈpɑːt.mənt/

noun

(chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

I am looking for a new apartment.

意味（1）

(chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

apartment dwellers

意味（2）

(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

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.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

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....

意味（4）

(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.