Definitions for partition

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partition par·ti·tion

Spelling: [pahr-tish-uh n, per-]

IPA: /pɑrˈtɪʃ ən, pər-/

Partition is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 320 anagrams from letters in partition (aiinoprtt).

Definitions for partition

noun

1. a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
2. a separation, as of two or more things.
3. something that separates or divides.
4. a part, division, or section.
5. an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas.
6. a septum or dissepiment, as in a plant or animal structure.
7. Law. a division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds.
8. Logic. the separation of a whole into its integrant parts.
9. Mathematics. a mode of separating a positive whole number into a sum of positive whole numbers. the decomposition of a set into disjoint subsets whose union is the original set:
10. Rhetoric. (in a speech organized on classical principles) the second, usually brief section or part in which a speaker announces the chief lines of thought to be discussed in support of his or her theme.

verb (used with object)

1. to divide into parts or portions.
2. to divide or separate by interior walls, barriers, or the like (sometimes followed by off):
3. to divide (a country or territory) into separate, usually differing political entities. Compare Balkanize.
4. Law. to divide property among several owners, either in specie or by sale and division of the proceeds.

Origin of partition

1400-50; late Middle English Latin partītiōn- (stem of partītiō) division, equivalent to partīt(us) past participle of partīrī to divide (see party) + -iōn-

Examples for partition

However, one evening in January she knocked with both her fists against the partition.

Here is the partition at my ear down in the deep on the lee side.

I would have shot you that day through the partition, but unfortunately you were not there.

There was complete silence on the other side of the partition.

PV traced his origins to Telangana, and yet he had bitterly opposed the idea of partition during his lifetime.

In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when partition happened.

He joins Donohue in flanking the man as he disappears behind a partition and from camera view.

He has called the 1947 partition the “biggest blunder in history” and advocates peace with India.

But of course no one in Moscow has anything to do with the “little green men” trying to partition Ukraine.

All this time he stood on the other side of the partition and prayed.