Noun

(en noun)

A length of some object.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

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(label) A portion.

# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.

(label) A portion.

# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

# (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

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(label) An Ethernet bus.

(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

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.