Meaning of Partition | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
   countable, uncountable
2. A part of something that has been divided.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
   countable, uncountable
5. A vertical structure that divides a room.
   countable, uncountable
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.
   countable, uncountable
7. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
   countable, uncountable
8. The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
   countable, uncountable
9. A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
   countable, uncountable
10. A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
    countable, uncountable
11. A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
    countable, uncountable
12. 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).
    countable, uncountable
13. A musical score.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“the Russian Partition”

“Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.”

“a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions”

“No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.”

“Lodged in a small partition.”

“The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.”

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