PARTITION


Meaning of PARTITION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɑ:(r)tɪʃ(ə)n ]

( partitions, partitioning, partitioned)

1.

A partition is a wall or screen that separates one part of a room or vehicle from another.

...new offices divided only by glass partitions...

N-COUNT

2.

If you partition a room, you separate one part of it from another by means of a partition.

Bedrooms have again been created by partitioning a single larger room...

He sat on the two-seater sofa in the partitioned office.

VERB : V n , V-ed

3.

If a country is partitioned , it is divided into two or more independent countries.

Korea was partitioned in 1945...

Britain was accused of trying to partition the country ‘because of historic enmity’...

The island has been partitioned since the mid-seventies.

VERB : be V-ed , V n , V-ed

Partition is also a noun.

...fighting which followed the partition of India.

N-UNCOUNT : oft N of n

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