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a division into or distribution in portions or shares.

a separation, as of two or more things.

something that separates or divides.

an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas.

a part, division, or section.

a septum or dissepiment, as in a plant or animal structure.

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.

Computers.��a section of storage space on a hard disk or device, devoted to a particular type of information and read and written to by the operating system or systems as if it were a separate disk or device.

Logic.��the act of analyzing a whole by breaking it down into its constituent parts.

Mathematics.��

1. a mode of separating a positive whole number into a sum of positive whole numbers.

2. the decomposition of a set into disjoint subsets whose union is the original set.

   A partition of the set (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) is the collection of subsets (1), (2, 3), (4), and (5).

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 their theme.

to divide into parts, sections, or portions.

to divide or separate by interior walls, barriers, or the like (sometimes followed byoff ).

to divide (a country or territory) into separate, usually differing political entities.

Law.��to divide property among several owners, either in specie or by sale and division of the proceeds.

Computers.��to divide (a hard disk or the data stored in it) into sections for different kinds of information, to be read and written to by the operating system or systems as if each section were a separate disk or device.