partition

Meanings

Noun

a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
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.
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

divide into parts, pieces, or sections
- "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
separate or apportion into sections
- "partition a room off"
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.

Origin / Etymology

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).

Synonyms

dismember, dismemberment, divider, division, partition off, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation, zone

Scrabble Score: 11

partition is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
partition is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
partition is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

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