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partition

verbnoun /pɑrtɪʃən/ 3 syllables 9 letters Scrabble 11 WWF 13
Definitions
verb

divide into parts, pieces, or sections

“The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British”

noun

the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

verb

separate or apportion into sections

“partition a room off”

noun

a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

noun

a structure that separates areas in an organism

noun

the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit

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