How to pronounce “partition”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
• A part of something that has been divided.
• (mathematics) 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.
• The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
• A vertical structure that divides a room.
• That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
• A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
• (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
• (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
• (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
• (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
• (set theory) 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).
• (music) A musical score.
• [Verb]
• To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
• To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
• To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

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