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 , andTo 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.