Partition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of dividing something into parts.
  • n. The state of being so divided.
  • n. Something that divides or separates, as a wall dividing one room or cubicle from another.
  • n. A wall, septum, or other separating membrane in an organism.
  • n. A part or section into which something has been divided.
  • n. Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
  • n. Mathematics An expression of a positive integer as a sum of positive integers.
  • n. Mathematics The decomposition of a set into a family of disjoint sets.
  • n. Computer Science A section of storage space on a hard disk.
  • n. Law Division of property, especially real estate.
  • v. To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.
  • v. To divide or separate by means of a partition: We partitioned off the alcove to make another bedroom.
  • v. To divide (a country) into separate, autonomous nations.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another
  • n. A part of something that had been divided, each of its results.
  • n. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
  • n. A vertical structure that divides a room.
  • n. A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
  • n. 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).
  • v. To divide something into parts, sections or shares
  • v. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
  • v. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution.
  • n. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another
  • n. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
  • n. The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
  • n. A score.
  • v. To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute.
  • v. To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc..
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of parting or dividing; the act of separating into portions and distributing: as, the partition of a kingdom among several other states.
  • n. The state of being divided; division; separation; distinction.
  • n. Separate part; apartment; compartment.
  • n. That by which different parts are separated.
  • n. In architecture, a dividing wall; a wall or barrier which serves to separate one apartment from another in a building.
  • n. In botany, the division of a parted leaf; also, the wall of a cell in an ovary or fruit; a dissepiment.
  • n. In zoology, specifically, a party-wall, septum, or dissepiment.
  • n. In law, a division of property among co-owners by their agreement or by judicial proceeding.
  • n. In music. Same as score.
  • n. In logic and rhetoric, the separation of an integrate whole into its integrant parts; the separation of any whole into its parts, except that the separation of a genus into its species, or of a species into genus and difference, is not so called.
  • n. In mathematics, a mode of separating a positive whole number into a sum of positive whole numbers. Thus, the partitions of are , and
  • To divide by walls or partitions.
  • To divide into shares: as, to partition an estate.
  • To separate into parts.
  • To make a selection of elements possessing a common characteristic: as, to partition a manifold.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
  • v. separate or apportion into sections
  • v. divide into parts, pieces, or sections
  • n. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
  • n. (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
  • n. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
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