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Partitionment :: Partitionment (n.) The act of partitioning.

Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it..

Screen :: Screen (n.) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.

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

Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

Sarcina :: Sarcina (n.) A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group..

Multiseptate :: Multiseptate (a.) Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed..

Bipartition :: Bipartition (n.) The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided..

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..

Septum :: Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum..

Mesentery :: Mesentery (n.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

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..

Room :: Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber..

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..

Impartible :: Impartible (a.) Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate..

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..

Septicidal :: Septicidal (a.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

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