Definition of partition

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Partition (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

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Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..
Septiferous :: Septiferous (a.) Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.
Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs..
Taeniola :: Taeniola (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house..
Septum :: Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum..
Trap :: Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids..
Septum :: Septum (n.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
Septum :: Septum (n.) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.
Partitionment :: Partitionment (n.) The act of partitioning.
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns..
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
Honesty :: Honesty (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..
Biseptate :: Biseptate (a.) With two partitions or septa.
Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
Vomer :: Vomer (n.) A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals..
Apartment :: Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions..
Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.
Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..
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