partition

Etymology
Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from, from (modern ), from , from , the past participle of.

Noun

 * 1) An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
 * 2) A part of something that has been divided.
 * 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.
 * 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)  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)  A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
 * 10)  A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
 * 11)  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).
 * 12)  A musical score.
 * 1) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
 * 2)  The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
 * 3)  A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
 * 4)  A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
 * 5)  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).
 * 6)  A musical score.
 * 1)  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).
 * 2)  A musical score.

Usage notes

 * The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَقْسِيم
 * Hijazi Arabic: تَقْسِيم
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hindi: बंटवारा
 * Ido:
 * Irish: deighilt
 * Japanese:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: wāwāhanga, pātaki
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Urdu: تقسیم


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: disdivido
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: بارتشن
 * Bengali: পার্টিশন
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: división
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: spiara, landair
 * Japanese: パーティション, 間仕切り
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skillevegg
 * Nynorsk: skiljevegg
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Schetzel, Scheedunk
 * Russian: ,


 * Bengali: পার্টিশন
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: diskový oddíl
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: パーティション
 * Maori: pātaki
 * Norwegian: partisjon
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , Klasseneinteilung
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חלוקה
 * Icelandic: deildaskipting
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish:


 * French:, ,

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.
 * 1) To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.
 * 1) To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch: dismemberen,, ,
 * Esperanto: disdividi
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

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