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Partition   /pɑrtˈɪʃən/   Listen
Partition

noun
1.
A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).  Synonym: divider.
2.
(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit.
3.
(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism.
4.
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.  Synonyms: division, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation.
verb
(past & past part. partitioned; pres. part. partitioning)
1.
Divide into parts, pieces, or sections.  Synonym: partition off.
2.
Separate or apportion into sections.  Synonym: zone.



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"Partition" Quotes from Famous Books



... because he could never be, under any circumstance, anything but a broken-down, plain-looking animal. He was put into the horse stable in a stall next Fleetfoot, and as the partition was low, they could look over at each other. In time, by dint of much doctoring, Scrub's hoofs became clean and sound and he was able to do some work. Miss Laura petted him a great deal. She often took out apples to the stable, and Fleetfoot would throw up his beautiful head and look reproachfully ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... wooden partition that fenced the show window off from the remainder of the store. And in the window she saw—what do you think? Well, I imagine you must have ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store • Laura Lee Hope
... that he completed it in full. He was lodged in the Parua Domus, a hostel for fifty boys, and we are told that he and his next neighbour made a hole through the wall which divided their rooms—probably only a wooden partition—and taught one another: Wessel imparting earthly wisdom, and receiving in exchange the fear and love of the Lord. In the autumn of 1449 he matriculated at Cologne, entering the Bursa Laurentiana; in December 1450 he was B.A., ...
— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen
... Town lock-up to be enlarged by taking down the partition between it and a chamber formerly used by the Constable as a potato store. It was also resolved to strengthen the door and provide it with ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... combination of a four way cock with a receptacle having a movable partition operated by the water, substantially as described, for the purpose of limiting and determining the amount of water to be ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various


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