partition
partition Lexical Profile
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• noun
A light interior wall, screen, or panel used to divide a room or building into separate areas.
"The office manager installed glass partitions to give each employee a quiet workspace."
The action or state of dividing or being divided into parts, especially the political division of a country or territory into separate autonomous nations.
"Historians continue to study the long-term demographic consequences of the region's partition."
A logically independent section of a computer's hard disk or storage drive that functions as a separate unit.
"She created a separate partition on her hard drive to test the new operating system."
• verb
To divide a room, territory, or data storage medium into separate, distinct parts or sections.
"The landlords decided to partition the large warehouse into three smaller studio apartments."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in Middle English via Anglo-French from Latin partitio ('a sharing, division, or distribution'), derived from the verb partire ('to part or divide'), from pars ('a part or piece').