partition

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Synonyms: partuition, perdition, petition, parturition, largition, fortition, tactition, portation, partitive, repartition, dipartition

Antonyms: partuition, perdition, petition, parturition, largition, fortition, tactition, portation, partitive, repartition, dipartition

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Noun

1. An action which [[divide]]s a thing into parts, or [[separate]]s one thing from another.
2. A [[part]] of something that has been [[divide]]d.
3. {{lb|en|math}} 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.
4. The [[division]] of a [[territory]] into two or more [[autonomous]] ones.
5. A [[vertical]] structure that divides a [[room]].
6. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
7. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
8. {{lb|en|legal}} The [[severance]] of common or undivided interests, particularly in [[real estate]]. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
9. {{lb|en|computing}} A [[section]] of a [[hard disk]] separately [[formatted]].
10. {{lb|en|databases}} A [[division]] of a [[database]] or one of its constituting elements such as [[table]]s into separate independent parts.
11. {{lb|en|computing}} A [[division]] of a [[data]] [[stream]], such as a [[messaging]] [[queue]] or [[topic]] (often representing a unit of [[parallelism]], and of [[fault tolerance]]).
12. {{lb|en|set theory}} A collection of non-empty, [[disjoint]] [[subset]]s of a [[set]] whose [[union]] is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).

Verb

1. To [[divide]] something into [[parts]], [[section]]s or [[share]]s.
2. To divide a [[region]] or [[country]] into two or more [[territories]] with separate [[political]] [[status]].
3. To separate or divide a [[room]] by a partition (ex. a [[wall]]), often use with ''off''.

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