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partition

A reserved part of disk or memory that is set aside for some purpose. On a PC, new hard disks must be partitioned before they can be formatted for the operating system, and the Fdisk utility is used for this task. It can make one partition, creating one drive letter for the entire disk, or it can make several partitions, sized to your requirements. For example, drives C:, D: and E: could be the same physical disk, but function as three "logical" drives to the operating system and user. See primary partition and DOS Fdisk.

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partition

1. a division of a country into two or more separate nations

2. Property law a division of property, esp realty, among joint owners

3. Maths any of the ways by which an integer can be expressed as a sum of integers

4. Logic Maths

a. the division of a class into a number of disjoint and exhaustive subclasses

b. such a set of subclasses

5. Biology a structure that divides or separates

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1.	(storage)	partition - A logical section of a disk. Each partition normally has its own file system. Unix tends to treat partitions as though they were separate physical entities.
2.	(mathematics)	partition - A division of a set into subsets so that each of its elements is in exactly one subset.