1. Divide into parts, pieces, or sections
   "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British";
   - partition off
    
2. Separate or apportion into sections
   "partition a room off";
   - zone

1. The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
   "The partition of the office into different departments improved workflow efficiency";
   - division, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation [Brit]
    
2. A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
   "The office used movable partitions to create flexible workspaces";
   - divider
    
3. (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
   "The nasal septum is a partition that divides the nasal cavity"
    
4. (computing) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
   "He created a separate partition for his Linux installation"

Derived forms: partitions, partitioning, partitioned

Type of: body part, computer memory unit, construction, divide, part, separate, separation, structure

Encyclopedia: Partition