Noun

The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.

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Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building.

(engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound

(engineering) The state of a body so separated.

(electrical) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.

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.