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Partition :: Partition (v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom..

Interventricular :: Interventricular (a.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart..

Pocket :: Pocket (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like..

Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..

Compartition :: Compartition (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment..

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..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes..

Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs..

Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..

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..

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall..

Partition :: Partition (v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law..

Deafen :: Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

Nautilus :: Nautilus (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Elocular :: Elocular (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition..

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