Meaning

13 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

    the partitions of Poland

    Teilung

    разделе́ниеrazdelénije, деле́ниеdelénije, разде́лrazdél

    a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

  2. (countable, uncountable)A part of something that has been divided.

    the Russian Partition

    отделе́ниеotdelénije, се́кцияsékcija, яче́йкаjačéjka

  3. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

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

    деле́ниеdelénije

  5. (countable, uncountable)A vertical structure that divides a room.

    a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions

    перегоро́дкаperegoródka, перебо́ркаperebórka

  6. (countable, uncountable)That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

    the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

  7. (countable, uncountable)A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

  8. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

    Partition

    разде́лrazdél

  10. (countable, uncountable)A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).

  12. (countable, uncountable)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).

    Partition, Zerlegung, Klasseneinteilung

Examples

11 sentences
  1. This partition separates the two rooms.

    ruЭти две комнаты отделены перегородкой.

    deDiese Zwischenwand trennt die beiden Räume.

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  2. I need to partition my hard drive.

    deIch muss meine Festplatte partitionieren.

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  3. Can a body, hand, or finger enter the safety partition?

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  4. The hall could seat a thousand people before it was partitioned.

    deVor dem Aufstellen der Trennwände konnte die Halle tausend Menschen aufnehmen.

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  5. Brazil is partitioned into states, which in turn are partitioned into municipalities.

    ruБразилия делится на штаты, которые, в свою очередь, делятся на муниципалитеты.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another:
part of something that has been divided:
vertical structure that divides a room:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another:
section of a hard disk separately formatted:
collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set:

Origin

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).

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Forms

plural: partitions
Singularpartition
Pluralpartitions

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

See also

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