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partition
/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/
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What does partition mean?
noun
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- A part of something that has been divided.
- An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
More meanings (13)
noun
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- A musical score.
verb
- To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
- To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
- To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.
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IPA pronunciation
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Then I sprang once more to the top of the partition and dropped into my own cell beside the astonished Xodar.
A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it.
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During the whole of that entr’acte Kurágin stood with Dólokhov in front of the orchestra partition, looking at the Rostóvs’ box.
Closing the door, the Persian went to a very thin partition that separated the dressing-room from a big lumber-room next to it.
And so the work goes on, cell upon cell, each supplying the materials for the partition separating it from the one below.