A Quick and Simple Dictionary

partition

1. Noun.  An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
2. Noun.  A part of something that had been divided, each of its results.
3. Noun.  The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
4. Noun.  A vertical structure that divides a room.
5. Noun.  (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
6. Noun.  (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).
7. Verb.  To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
8. Verb.  To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
9. Verb.  To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with ''off''.