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Parting vs Apportionment - What's the difference?

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Parting is a related term of apportionment.


As nouns the difference between parting and apportionment

is that parting is the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation while apportionment is the act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.

As a verb parting

is .

parting

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xxi. 21
    • The parting of the way.
  • A farewell, the act of departing politely.
  • * Byron
    • And there were sudden partings ,such as press / The life from out young hearts.
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
  • (British) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US )
  • (founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
  • (chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
  • (geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
  • (nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
  • (mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * parting shot

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    apportionment

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia apportionment) (en noun)
  • The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment .
  • (lb) The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
  • (lb) The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.