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apartment

/əˈpɑɹt.mənt/ noun A2
  1. A room within a house.
  2. 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.

Plural apartments

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Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, taking in every detail of the apartment.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 56 · B2
With your permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the inner apartment.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 58 · B2
At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 50 · B2
I have seen death in many forms, but never has it appeared to me in a more fearsome aspect than in that dark grimy apartment, which looked out upon one of the main arteries of suburban London.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 29 · B2

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