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partition
  1. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
  2. A part of something that has been divided.
  3. (mathematics) An 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. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
  5. A vertical structure that divides a room.
  6. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
  7. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
  8. (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
  9. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
  10. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
  11. (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).
  12. (music) A musical score.
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  14. Examples:
    1. “Panikkar explicitly recognized this problem and advocated a partition of the state into two parts.”
      “It is divided into two rooms by means of a concrete partition.”
      “The birds make a small partition for their eggs in the nest with stalks of grass.”
parting
  1. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
  2. A farewell, the act of departing politely.
  3. (Britain) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)
  4. (founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
  5. (chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
  6. (geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
  7. (nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
  8. (mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “In the planning, there was a division sufficiently large to drown the Egyptian Pharaoh and his legions without a miracle of the parting of the seas.”
      “She wondered if she would be less devastated if she hadn't witnessed the parting of her father's soul, but couldn't find a definite answer.”
      “The fourth book describes his parting from his wife, his palace, and his station, that he might preach his new doctrines clothed in humble robes.”
partial
  1. (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
  2. (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
  3. (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
  4. (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
  5. (programming) A fragment of a template containing markup.
  6. Synonyms:
part
  1. A portion; a component.
    1. A fraction of a whole. syn. transl.
    2. A distinct element of something larger.
    3. A group inside a larger group. syn. transl.
    4. Share, especially of a profit.
    5. A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
    6. 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
    7. A section of a document.
    8. A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
    9. (mathematics) A factor.
    10. (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
  2. Duty; responsibility.
    1. Position or role (especially in a play).
    2. (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
    3. Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
  3. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions. syn. transl.
  4. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds. syn.
  5. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The team was under pressure in the early part of the game.”
      “We intend to make the social economy a key part of Canada's social policy tool kit.”
      “Mitchell has managed to develop his part into the leading character, or was it Willmott who devised it that way?”
partialist
  1. One who is partial.
  2. (theology) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, i.e. for the elect.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In section 1, the author describes the problem of distance and some impartialist and partialist responses to it.”
partialism
  1. Partiality; specifically in theology the doctrine of the Partialists.
partitioning
partitioner
  1. One who applies, executes or imposes a partition, division or separation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Self-employed partitioner George Hitchmough, 22, from Belle Vale, had worked on the Pall Mall scheme for five months.”
      “The Expedition package encapsulates Synopsys' FPGA Compiler II software and a hierarchical partitioner.”
      “This example is used to demonstrate that the performance of the algorithm need not diminish significantly when a mesh partitioner is used to decompose the mesh.”
partiality
  1. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I have a partiality for desserts, and when Gimli mentioned the honeycakes, I was intrigued by them.”
      “But is every judgment that the one tradition renders upon the other attributable to prejudice and partiality of vision?”
      “The account of his life, although containing many errors and the most intolerable partiality, is a very creditable production.”
partialness
  1. The condition of being partial; partiality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His partialness towards his favorite team affected his ability to fairly judge the outcome of the game.”
partitionment
parts
partitionments
partitionings
partitioners
  1. plural of partitioner
partialisms
  1. plural of partialism
partialists
  1. plural of partialist
partialities
  1. plural of partiality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “On the way we exchanged philosophies of cricket and a few personal partialities.”
      “Learning to play the instrument that is a poet's voice is learning about the tolerances and partialities of a poet's ear.”
      “He was a consummate stylist, but personal partialities made him an erratic judge of others.”
partitions
partials
  1. plural of partial
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His poems build cubically, back and front and side-angle at once, with glimpses and partials, memories and immediacies held up in time.”
      “Bass players in these bands often play with picks, which also emphasizes higher partials.”
      “Older patients with dentures and partials also need to take precautions against a dry mouth.”
partings
  1. plural of parting
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They soon discover that not all Londoners have side partings and that litter and graffiti and distressed denim does exist in the capital.”
      “But those fiddly, pretty styles involving clips and partings everywhere are beyond me.”
      “Her relationship with William was depicted as a love affair, involving many partings and returns from war.”
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