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partition Definition

par·ti·tion (pär tis̸h′ən)

noun

  1. a parting or being parted; division into parts; separation; apportionment
  2. something that separates or divides, as an interior wall dividing one room from another
  3. a part or section; portion; compartment
  4. Law the process of dividing property and giving separate title to those who previously had joint or common title

Etymology: ME particioune < L partitio

transitive verb

  1. to divide into parts or shares; apportion
  2. to set off or divide by a partition

partition Related Forms

par·ti′·tioned adjective par·ti′·tioner noun

partition Synonyms

partition

n.

  1. Division

    apportionment, separation, severance; see distribution 1.

  2. That which divides or separates

    bar, obstruction, hindrance; see barrier, wall 1.

partition Law Definition

n

A separator of one space from another; a separation by a court of real estate owned jointly into two or more separately owned parcels, so that each of the former joint owners may enjoy having his or her own estate.

v

to separate a single parcel into two. 

partition Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • resize: VMWare includes a handy tool for resizing a virtual disk, but of course that doesn't resize the partition on the disk.
  • delete: Menu driven, it is a breeze to create and delete partitions, multiple primary partitions, configure the MBR area.
  • mount: Otherwise you can download all the packages from your current OS and install them later from mounted partition.
  • glaze: The side lounges are separated by a partially glazed partition from the dining area.

Adjective modifier

  • dos: The other hard disk, which has two DOS partitions, was fine.
  • bootable: These boot managers can also getting around the limits within which a bootable partition normally had to reside in.
  • fat32: Windows XP has a Convert utility that converts a FAT32 partition to NTFS without having to copy all of the data elsewhere.
  • extended: An extended partition may have an arbitrary number of " logical " drives.
  • moveable: This may be achieved through a single larger unit or created through the combination of two adjacent units with a moveable partition.
  • ext3: These days, I just make an ext3 partition from the start.

Preposition: on

disk: The " ( D: ) " drive gives you access to the second partition on the local disk.

Modifies a noun

  • coefficient: Because the partition coefficient is positive the outer layers solidify with progressively lower nickel concentrations.
  • wall: The partition wall was knocked down, doubling the office space.

Preposition: of

subcontinent: Britain created the problem with the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

Noun used with modifier

  • swap: XXioctl swap device There are swap partitions in the XX type device.
  • dos: A system will only boot from the primary DOS partition of the master drive placed on the Primary IDE channel.
  • linux: The linux partition was on the last 2 GB of the drive, well outside the 2 gb maximum.
  • /home: So I mounted both / and /home partitions from Solaris in Linux by performing the following.
  • disk: Should this disk partition fill, email will not get delivered.
  • stud: Here is a good example of a stud partition wall.