Noun

(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

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(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.

(lb) Proper or equal share.

*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.

The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.

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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)

*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.

* (1800-1859)

*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.

A statement of equality between two ratios.

Size.

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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.