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How to pronounce partition in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms partition off
Type of divide, separate, part
Has types pound off, pound
Derivation partitioning, partitionist


The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British.
Type Words
Synonyms division, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation
Type of separation
Has types zoning, subdivision, septation
Derivation partitionist
Type Words
Synonyms zone
Type of divide, separate
Has types separate off, screen off
Derivation partitioning


partition a room off.
Type Words
Synonyms divider
Type of structure, construction
Has types bulkhead, wall, brattice, screen
Type Words
Type of body part
Has types septum
Type Words
Type of computer memory unit

Examples of partition

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Students behind a glass partition clean bones, and the displays are magnificent.
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Sixty years ago, too, the Palestinians refused partition and ended up stateless.
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Regrettably, Turkey saw an opportunity to put in motion its plans for partition.
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In terms of the consumer experience, an iPad will be installed in the partition.
From the techcrunch.com
The parent partition then creates the child partitions which host the guest OSs.
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Thus two referendums were held in 1920 resulting in the partition of the region.
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Pakistan became independent from British India in 1947, following its partition.
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At the beginning of 1947, the Soviet Union supported the partition of Palestine.
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In 1937, Hans Rademacher found an exact formula for calculating partition values.
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More examples
  • A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
  • Divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
  • (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
  • Separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
  • (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
  • Division: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
  • Partition is a film by award-winning director Ken McMullen. The film is set in the turmoil surrounding the transfer of political power in British India from British to Indian hands and the partition of the subcontinent into The Dominion of Pakistan and The Republic of India in 1947. ...
  • Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple virtual hard disk drives, referred to as partitions, in order to treat a single physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks. ...
  • A partition is a division of a logical database or its constituting elements into distinct independent parts. Database partitioning is normally done for manageability, performance or availability reasons.