As nouns the difference between partition and inheritance
is that
partition is partition (section of a hard disk separately formatted) while
inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death.
partition Noun
( en noun)
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
* Shakespeare
- And good from bad find no partition .
A part of something that has been divided.
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
A vertical structure that divides a room.
- a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
* Dryden
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
* Milton
- Lodged in a small partition .
(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.
(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.
Usage notes
* (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.
Synonyms
* dismemberment
Derived terms
* equipartition
Related terms
* partite
Verb
( en verb)
(transitive)
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
Synonyms
* dismember
Derived terms
* partitioner
* partitionist
Related terms
* partner
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inheritance Alternative forms
* enheritance (obsolete)
* enheritaunce (obsolete)
* inheritaunce (obsolete)
Noun
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
Related terms
* inherit
* inheritable
* inheritor
* preheritance
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