คำว่า ' department ' ( N )
มีความหมายในภาษาไทยว่า แผนก
คำศัพท์อื่นๆที่มีความหมายเหมือนกัน : ภาค, คณะ, กรม
คำที่คล้ายกัน : agency; branch; division; group
คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[v. i.] Act of departing; departure.
[v. i.] A part, portion, or subdivision.
[v. i.] A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
[v. i.] Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
[v. i.] A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
[v. i.] A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.