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partition

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 particionar to partition
  2. 🔊 división partition, partitioning (the division of a territory in two or more parts)

Similar words

division partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation divider zone partition off abstraction alienation allotment apportion apportioning apportionment area barrier bisector booth boundary brattice breaking up budgeting buffer buffer state