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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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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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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.