compartmentation

compartmentation
/keuhm pahrt'meuhn tay"sheuhn/, n. Naut.
subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
[1955-60; COMPARTMENT + -ATION]

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