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partitionA 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. 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 partition [pär′tish·ən] (building construction) An interior wall having a height of one story or less, which divides a structure into sections. (computer science) A reserved portion of a computer memory, sometimes used for the execution of a single computer program. One of a number of fixed portions into which a computer memory is divided in certain multiprogramming systems. (industrial engineering) A slotted sheet of paperboard that can be assembled with similar sheets to form cells for holding goods during shipment. (mathematics) For an integern, any collection of positive integers whose sum equalsn. For a setA, a collection of disjoint sets whose union isA. For a closed intervalI, a finite set of closed subintervals ofIthat intersect only at their end points and whose union isI.
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| "Get up, don't go on sleeping," said Yashvin, going behind the partition and giving Petritsky, who was lying with ruffled hair and with his nose in the pillow, a prod on the shoulder. Amelie rose, took an easel which stood near hers, carried it to a distance from the noble group, and placed it close to a board partition which separated the studio from the extreme end of the attic, where all broken casts, defaced canvases and the winter supply of wood were kept. The same rule which teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other. |
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