Meaning

• An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

• A part of something that has been divided.

• 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.

• The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

  "Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs"

• A vertical structure that divides a room.

  "a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions"

• That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

• A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

• The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

• A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

• A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

• 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).

• A musical score.

Meaning

• To divide something into parts, sections or shares

• To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status

• To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off