a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
a separation, as of two or more things.
something that separates or divides.
a part, division, or section.
an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas.
a septum or dissepiment, as in a plant or animal structure.
Law. a division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds.
Logic. the separation of a whole into its integrant parts.
Mathematics.
a mode of separating a positive whole number into a sum of positive whole numbers.
the decomposition of a set into disjoint subsets whose union is the original set: A partition of the set (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is the collection of subsets (1), (2, 3), (4), and (5).
Rhetoric. (in a speech organized on classical principles) the second, usually brief section or part in which a speaker announces the chief lines of thought to be discussed in support of his or her theme.
verb (used with object)
to divide into parts or portions.
to divide or separate by interior walls, barriers, or the like (sometimes followed by off): to partition off a dormitory into cubicles.
to divide (a country or territory) into separate, usually differing political entities.Compare Balkanize.
Law. to divide property among several owners, either in specie or by sale and division of the proceeds.
Origin of partition
1400–50; late Middle English <Latin partītiōn- (stem of partītiō) division, equivalent to partīt(us) past participle of partīrī to divide (see party) + -iōn--ion
For face-to-face teaching, engineering measures such as ventilation, partition shields and filtration units can directly remove particles from the air.
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Yes, there was a sign on the door indicating masking was required, and plexiglass partitions had been placed at checkout counters.
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Checkout clerks scanned your items from behind a plexiglass partition and placed them back in your cart.
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Called sneeze guards or partitions, such barriers help limit someone’s exhaled virus from spreading to another.
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All of this change is costing brands a lot as more staff are needed for increased sanitization, partitions and other safety barriers are installed, hand sanitizer is provided, and more.
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In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when Partition happened.
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He joins Donohue in flanking the man as he disappears behind a partition and from camera view.
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But of course no one in Moscow has anything to do with the “little green men” trying to partition Ukraine.
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He has called the 1947 partition the “biggest blunder in history” and advocates peace with India.
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PV traced his origins to Telangana, and yet he had bitterly opposed the idea of partition during his lifetime.
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Your two poles supporting the roof may help you to partition off the sleeping places, either with boards or with curtains.
With the Harmony to Labrador|Benjamin La Trobe
The parts of this partition are in Euclide, and yet without any shew of a division.
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It might be advisable for them to partition off a corner of this room for an office.
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The chiefs fought among themselves with such ferocity that in Chile and Peru the partition of Bolivia was seriously discussed.
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He bent nearly double, and in the act he jarred the partition again.
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British Dictionary definitions for partition
partition
/ (pɑːˈtɪʃən) /
noun
a division into parts; separation
something that separates, such as a large screen dividing a room in two
a part or share
a division of a country into two or more separate nations
property lawa division of property, esp realty, among joint owners
mathsany of the ways by which an integer can be expressed as a sum of integers
logicmaths
the division of a class into a number of disjoint and exhaustive subclasses
such a set of subclasses
biologya structure that divides or separates
rhetoricthe second part of a speech where the chief lines of thought are announced
verb(tr)
(often foll by off)to separate or apportion into sectionsto partition a room off with a large screen
to divide (a country) into two or more separate nations
property lawto divide (property, esp realty) among joint owners, by dividing either the property itself or the proceeds of sale
Derived forms of partition
partitionerorpartitionist, noun
Word Origin for partition
C15: via Old French from Latin partītiō, from partīre to divide
A division of a nation or territory into two or more nations. Cyprus, Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, Palestine, and Vietnam are notable examples of countries that have undergone partition.