Definitions
1.nounAn action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
2.nounA part of something that has been divided.
3.nounAn approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
4.nounThe 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"
5.nounA vertical structure that divides a room."a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions"
6.nounThat which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
7.nounA part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
8.nounThe severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
9.nounA section of a hard disk separately formatted.
10.nounA division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
11.nounA 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).
12.nounA musical score.
13.verbTo divide something into parts, sections or shares
14.verbTo divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
15.verbTo separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off