Partition

Noun

 * 1) An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another
 * 2) A part of something that had been divided, each of its results.
 * 3) The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
 * ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
 * 1) A vertical structure that divides a room.
 * 2)  A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
 * 3)  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).

Synonyms

 * dismemberment

Derived terms

 * equipartition

Related terms

 * partite

Verb

 * 1) To divide something into parts, sections or shares
 * 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

Synonyms

 * dismember

Derived terms

 * partitioner
 * partitionist

Related terms

 * partner

Adjectives for Partition
saucer-shaped; unwarranted.

Thesaurus
abstraction, alienation, allotment, apportion, apportioning, apportionment, area, barrier, bisector, booth, boundary, brattice, breaking up, budgeting, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, carve, carve up, cell, chamber, cloison, collision mat, compartment, cushion, cut, cut up, cutting, cutting the pie, deal, detachment, diameter, diaphragm, disarticulation, disassociation, disburse, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dispense, disperse, dissepiment, dissolution, distribution, district, disunion, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, divider, dividing, dividing line, dividing wall, division, divorce, divorcement, divvy, divvy up, dole out, doling out, equator, fence off, fender, halfway mark, incoherence, interseptum, isolation, line of demarcation, luxation, mat, measure out, meting out, midriff, midsection, pad, panel, parcel, parcel out, parceling, paries, part, parting, partitioning, party wall, portion, portioning, property line, rationing, removal, repartition, room, rupture, screen, section, segment, segmentation, segmenting, separate, separation, separatism, separator, septulum, septum, set apart, share, share out, share with, sharing, sharing out, shock pad, slice, slice the pie, slice up, slicing, split, split up, split-up, splitting, stall, subdivide, subdivision, subtraction, wall, wall off, withdrawal, zone, zoning

Etymology
Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from particion (modern partition), from  partitio "division, portion", from partitus, the past participle of partire "to split (up), part(ition)"

Noun

 * Dutch: opdeling, partitie, splitsing, verdeling
 * Galician:


 * Greek: διαμερισμός, μερισμός, τεμαχισμός, διχοτόμηση


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Galician:


 * Greek: κατάτμηση,, , τεμάχιο


 * Dutch: opdeling, partitie, splitsing
 * Esperanto:


 * Greek: διχοτόμηση,


 * Greek:


 * Czech:
 * French:


 * Greek: κατάτμηση
 * Italian:


 * Czech:
 * German:, Zerlegung, Klasseneinteilung


 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חלוקה


 * : division, séparation, partition

Verb

 * Dutch:, ,


 * Dutch: dismemberen, opdelen, splitsen, verdelen


 * Esperanto:

Noun

 * 1) In heraldry, a (geometrical) division using two colors
 * 2) In music, a score comprising all parts