Partition vs Macroblock - What's the difference?
partition | macroblock | meronyms |
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
* Shakespeare
A part of something that has been divided.
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
A vertical structure that divides a room.
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
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
* Milton
(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.
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
(signal processing, video compression) A block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block
(archaeology) An area of a dig where there are multiple adjacent block excavations
* {{quote-book, 2003, David L. Carlson, chapter=Figuring Out "What Happened in the Middle Archaic?", Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology
, passage=In 1975 the macroblock area was stepped back so that a smaller block excavation could extend below Horizon 8.}}
Macroblock is a meronym of partition.
As nouns the difference between partition and macroblock
is that partition is an action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another while macroblock is a block of adjacent pixels, typically a rectangular 16×16 block.As a verb partition
is to divide something into parts, sections or shares.partition
English
(wikipedia partition)Noun
(en noun)- And good from bad find no partition .
- ''Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs
- a brick partition'''; lath and plaster '''partitions
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
- Lodged in a small partition .
Usage notes
* (set theory) The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.Synonyms
* dismembermentDerived terms
* equipartitionVerb
(en verb) (transitive)Synonyms
* dismemberDerived terms
* partitioner * partitionistmacroblock
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