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noun

Partition n.

1.

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. "And good from bad find no partition."

2.

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions; cubicles with four-foot high partitions. "No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass."

3.

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. (R.) "Lodged in a small partition."

4.

(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.

5.

(Mus.) A score.

Partition of numbers (Math.), the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions.

verb

Partition v. t. (past & past part. partitioned; pres. part. partitioning)

1.

To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.

2.

To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house. "Uniform without, though severally partitioned within."

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"Partition" Quotes from Famous Books

... whole week of nerve-wrecking struggle against odds which marked hope as vain. Bullets had beaten like rain upon the walls about her, the moaning of wounded men on the other side of the hastily constructed partition mingled unceasingly with the cries of the ever-nearing enemy. And she had lain there quiet and indifferent. Martins, the regiment's doctor, had looked in once at her and had shaken his head. "In all probability she will never wake," ...

— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie

... and the schism of the sixteenth century. Prussia was of this latter kind, and with Prussia Frederick. To-day his successors and their advisers, when they attempt to justify the man, are compelled still to ignore the European tradition of honour. But this crime of his, the partition of Poland, the germ of all that international distrust which has ended in the intolerable armed strain of our time has another character added to it: a character which attaches invariably to ill-doing when ...

— Hilaire Belloc - The Man and His Work • C. Creighton Mandell

... the island, if the preacher did not apologize and withdraw his charges. Montesino promised soon to preach in another style. Having filled the church with his malignant audience, he bravely maintained his position with fresh facts and arguments; he showed that the system of repartimientos, or partition of the Indians among the colonists, was more disastrous than the first system, which imposed upon each cacique a tax and left him to extort it from his subjects. He urged the policy of interest; for the Indians, unused to labor, died in droves: they dropped in the fields beneath the whip; they ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various

... were in turn visible, though vaguely, and at times, as the flame lapsed, all were lost in a flood of swift darkness. Once more that unhuman shriek echoed from hill to hill and from building to building. It was Satan in his box stall. The flames were eating through the partition, and the ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... always at our elbows. They who invented him no doubt could not conceive how men could be so atrocious to one another, without the intervention of a fiend. Don't you think, if he had never been heard of before, that he would have been invented on the late partition of Poland?" "Philosophy has a poor chance with me," he wrote a little later in regard to America, "when my warmth is stirred—and yet I know that an angry old man out of Parliament, and that can do nothing but be angry, is a ridiculous animal." The war against ...

— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

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