partition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
entertainment
law
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
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)”).
Inflected forms:
form: partitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: partitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: partitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: partitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: partitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the partitions of Poland
And good from bad find no partition.
At the partition of Ireland in 1920, the railway mileage of the whole country stood at its maximum figure of 3,442, of which 2,668 miles were in the South, and 754 in the much smaller North.
gloss: A part of something that has been divided.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the Russian Partition
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.
gloss: A vertical structure that divides a room.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions
gloss: That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
gloss: A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lodged in a small partition.
gloss: The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.
gloss: A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A musical score.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to partition a hard drive
gloss: To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Poland was progressively partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia in the late 18th century.
gloss: To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: dismemberment
dismember
Related words: partite
partner
Derived words: 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
partitionability
partitionable
partitioner
partitionist
repartition
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