partition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pärtĭ'shən
ipa: /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃɪn/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: partitions
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)”).
Senses: examples: text: the partitions of Poland
text: And good from bad find no partition.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
examples: text: the Russian Partition
glosses: A part of something that has been divided.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.
glosses: The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
examples: text: a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions
glosses: A vertical structure that divides a room.
examples: text: No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
examples: text: Lodged in a small partition.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
topics: law
glosses: The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
examples: text: The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Three (Legendary):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: 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).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical score.
Synonyms: dismemberment
Derived terms: bipartition
copartition
departition
dipartition
equipartition
Goldbach partition
Markov partition
micropartition
multipartition
overpartition
partitional
partition coefficient
partition function
partitionism
partitionless
partitionment
partition of unity
prepartition
Stirling partition number
subpartition
underpartition
unpartition
Related terms: partite