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noun
- something that divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another, especially a vertical structure that divides a room
- a part of something that had been divided
- the division of a country into two or more autonomous countries
- (computing) a section of a hard disk separately formatted
- (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)
verb to partition
- 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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