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| partition | |
| 1. sost. divisione, separazione, partizione | |
| 2. sost. (architettura) tramezzo, divisorio | |
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| partition | |
| 1. subst. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another. |  |
| 2. subst. A part of something that has been divided. | |
| 3. subst. (math) 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. subst. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones. | |
| Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs | |
| 5. subst. A vertical structure that divides a room. | |
| a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions | |
| 6. subst. 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. subst. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. | |
| 8. subst. (legal) 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. subst. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted. | |
| 10. subst. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts. | |
| 11. subst. (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). | |
| 12. subst. (music) A musical score. | |
| 13. v. transitive | |
| 14. v. To divide something into parts, sections or shares | |
| 15. v. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status | |
| 16. v. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off | |
