Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of dividing something into parts.
- noun The state of being so divided.
- noun Something that divides or separates, as a wall dividing one room or cubicle from another.
- noun A wall, septum, or other separating membrane in an organism.
- noun A part or section into which something has been divided.
- noun Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
- noun An expression of a positive integer as a sum of positive integers.
- noun The decomposition of a set into a family of disjoint sets.
- noun Computers A section of storage space on a hard disk.
- noun Law Division of property, especially real property, between co-owners into equivalent, separately owned portions or shares.
- transitive verb To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.
- transitive verb To divide or separate by means of a partition.
- transitive verb To divide (a country) into separate, autonomous nations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divide by walls or partitions.
- To divide into shares: as, to
partition an estate. - To separate into parts.
- To make a selection of elements possessing a common characteristic: as, to
partition a manifold. - noun The act of parting or dividing; the act of separating into portions and distributing: as, the partition of a kingdom among several other states.
- noun The state of being divided; division; separation; distinction.
- noun Separate part; apartment; compartment.
- noun That by which different parts are separated.
- noun In architecture, a dividing wall; a wall or barrier which serves to separate one apartment from another in a building.
- noun In botany, the division of a parted leaf; also, the wall of a cell in an ovary or fruit; a dissepiment.
- noun In zoology, specifically, a party-wall, septum, or dissepiment.
- noun In law, a division of property among co-owners by their agreement or by judicial proceeding.
- noun In music. Same as
score . - noun In logic and rhetoric, the separation of an integrate whole into its integrant parts; the separation of any whole into its parts, except that the separation of a genus into its species, or of a species into genus and difference, is not so called.
- noun In mathematics, a mode of separating a positive whole number into a sum of positive whole numbers. Thus, the partitions of are , and
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute.
- transitive verb To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc..
- noun The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution.
- noun That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another
- noun rare A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- noun (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.
- noun (Mus.) A score.
- noun (Math.) the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An action which
divides a thing into parts, orseparates one thing from another - noun A
part of something that had been divided, each of its results. - noun The
division of aterritory into two or moreautonomous ones. - noun A
vertical structure that divides aroom . - noun computing A
section of ahard disk separatelyformatted . - noun set theory A collection of non-empty,
disjoint subsets of aset whoseunion is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets). - verb To
divide something intoparts ,sections orshares - verb To divide a
region orcountry into two or moreterritories with separatepolitical status - verb To separate or divide a
room by a partition (ex. awall ), often use with off
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- verb separate or apportion into sections
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The system partition is set up by copying a simple set of Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files to an existing empty partition。
TechNet Blogs 2009
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For example; partitioning - > drive - > partitions - > partition as $partition) {$partition - > create = "false"; if ($partition - > mount = = "/ local") $partition - > format = "false";} header ( 'Content-Type: text / xml'); print $data - > asXML ();?
Planet SUSE 2009
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For example; partitioning - > drive - > partitions - > partition as $partition) {$partition - > create = "false"; if ($partition - > mount = = "/ local") $partition - > format = "false";} header ( 'Content-Type: text / xml'); print $data - > asXML ();?
Planet SUSE 2009
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In addition to just being a good practice in general this partition is the "resale value of the laptop".
Archive 2007-04-08 William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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In addition to just being a good practice in general this partition is the "resale value of the laptop".
Slackware Linux & IBM Thinkpad R51 William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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A physical partition is a whole other hard drive that gets its own letter when you add it to your computer.
Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Having a separate Windows partition is very helpful.
Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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A virtual partition is a slice of an existing drive.
Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The WBFS partition is 500G and he has 460ish left in NTFS format.
Back Up And Play Your Wii Games From An External Hard Drive | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Also, moving the heads takes time, and with the paging file (the concept of virtual memory is irrelevant here) on a separate partition, the heads will continually have to move between the main partition and the one with the paging file on it.
Separate Data From Windows On A Standalone Partition | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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