📖 WordNook

partition

noun
  1. the act of dividing or partitioning
    partitioningsegmentationsectionalizationsectionalisation
  2. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
    divider
  3. (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
  4. (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
verb
  1. separate or apportion into sections
    “partition a room off”
    zone
  2. divide into parts, pieces, or sections
    “The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British”
    partition off