Usually means: Sum over states, weights probabilities.
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  2. Partition function (disambiguation), Partition function (mathematics), Partition function (number theory), Partition function: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (partition function)

noun:  (mathematics) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
noun:  (number theory) function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.
noun:  (quantum field theory) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics
noun:  (statistical mechanics) function Z[J] that is the generating function of the correlation function

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