partition
IPA: pɑrtˈɪʃʌn
noun
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- A part of something that has been divided.
- (mathematics) 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.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- (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.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- (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).
- (music) A musical score.
verb
- 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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Examples of "partition" in Sentences
- The partition plan is in the past.
- The results of partition were catastrophic.
- On the IDLE state is irreversible for the partition.
- Having a separate Windows partition is very helpful.
- A virtual partition is a slice of an existing drive.
- Entering the IDLE state is irreversible for the partition.
- The district was splitted during the Partition of Vietnam.
- This resulted in the partition of the island of New Guinea.
- The denominator of the right side is the partition function.
- Concatenation may be thought of as the inverse of partitioning.
- The WBFS partition is 500G and he has 460ish left in NTFS format.
- This is not the place to discuss the date of the partition of Ireland.
- This is the introduction, the partition, and the peroration of his essay.
- In addition to just being a good practice in general this partition is the "resale value of the laptop".
- A physical partition is a whole other hard drive that gets its own letter when you add it to your computer.
- The system partition is set up by copying a simple set of Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files to an existing empty partition。
- 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.
- 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 ();?
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