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Verb
/pärˈtiSHən/,/pər-/,
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partitions, plural;
  1. Divide into parts
    • - an agreement was reached to partition the country
  2. Divide (a room) into smaller rooms or areas by erecting partitions
    • - the hall was partitioned to contain the noise of the computers
  3. Separate a part of a room from the rest by erecting a partition
    • - partition off part of a large bedroom to create a small bathroom
Noun
  1. (esp. with reference to a country with separate areas of government) The action or state of dividing or being divided into parts
    • - the country's partition into separate states
  2. A structure dividing a space into two parts, esp. a light interior wall

  3. The distribution of a solute between two immiscible or slightly miscible solvents in contact with one another, in accordance with its differing solubility in each

  4. Each of a number of portions into which some operating systems divide memory or storage

  1. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
  2. divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
  3. (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
  4. separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
  5. (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
  6. division: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
  7. Partition is a film by award-winning director Ken McMullen. The film is set in the turmoil surrounding the transfer of political power in British India from British to Indian hands and the partition of the subcontinent into The Dominion of Pakistan and The Republic of India in 1947. ...
  8. Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple virtual hard disk drives, referred to as partitions, in order to treat a single physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks. ...
  9. A partition is a division of a logical database or its constituting elements into distinct independent parts. Database partitioning is normally done for manageability, performance or availability reasons.
  10. A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants. ...
  11. A logical partition, commonly called an LPAR, is a subset of computer's hardware resources, virtualized as a separate computer. In effect, a physical machine can be partitioned into multiple logical partitions, each hosting a separate operating system.
  12. The term "partition" is also French for the sheet music of a transcription.
  13. (partitioned) In an ANOVA calculation, the total sum of squares is separated (partitioned) into the between-groups sum of squares and the within-groups sum of squares.
  14. (partitioned) The pith divided crosswise by woody plates, usually near the leaf scars.
  15. (partitioning) The process of breaking tables into parts to improve retrieval performance.
  16. (Partitioning) Dividing a spectrum license into two or more geographic areas.
  17. (Partitioning) In geographically licensed services, this is the acquisition of a portion of a licensee's geographic service area by another entity. For example, a PCS licensee with a license for an MTA could partition a BTA within the MTA to another entity. ...
  18. (Partitioning) Splitting a job into multiple threads where each thread is responsible for a subset of the overall data to be processed. The threads of execution may be within the same JVM or they may span JVMs in a clustered environment that supports workload balancing.
  19. (Partitioning) Splitting of target data into smaller units.
  20. (Partitioning) The development of separate specialized units or activities.
  21. (Partitioning) a way of looking at markets in terms of how consumers categorize products in relationship to perceived characteristics of the category.
  22. (Partitioning) is the division of the elements and nodes to set up the calculation on a given number of processors.
  23. (partitioning) (n.) process of restructuring a program or algorithm into independent computational segments. The goal is to have multiple processors simultaneously work on these independent computational segments.
  24. (partitioning) How you choose to divide your speech into parts. (ch 12) (425)
  25. (partitioning) Possible values are partitioned into meaningful sets; actual values are replaced with a fixed value from the same set. E.g., TCP port numbers 0 to 1023 are replaced with 0, and 1024 to 65535 replaced with 65535.