partition

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
2. (countable, uncountable) A part of something that has been divided.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
4. (countable, uncountable) The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
5. (countable, uncountable) A vertical structure that divides a room.
6. (countable, uncountable) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
7. (countable, uncountable) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
8. (countable, uncountable) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
9. (countable, uncountable) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
10. (countable, uncountable) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
11. (countable, uncountable) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
12. (countable, uncountable) 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).
13. (countable, uncountable) A musical score.

Verb

1. (transitive) To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
2. (transitive) To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
3. (transitive) To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

Sinonieme

division

wall

divide

divider

separation

distribution

separate

partition off

segmentation

section

compartment

subdivision

deal

part

split

screen

apportionment

segment

allotment

share

septum

portion

partitioning

parting

dividing

dismemberment

cubicle

dissect

subdivide

split up

zone

classification

allocate

allot

sever

sub-unit

assignment

boundary

mark off

demarcation

allocation

diaphragm

distribute

dissever

distinction

cut

apportion

dispense

segregate

dividing wall

Vertalings

partición

partition

🅰️

partizione

divisione

Teilung

division

partição

cloison

división

clausuur

χώρισμα

beschot

schifting

Partition

Trennwand

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pɑɹˈtɪ.ʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: particioun

In summary

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," from Middle English particioun, from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).