Literary notes about partition (AI summary)
The word “partition” is wielded with remarkable versatility across literary works. In technical narratives, it designates the segmentation of computer storage into distinct areas [1][2][3], while in historical and political texts it conveys the division of power, territory, and even monarchy, evoking visions of fractured realms [4][5]. In more imaginative or descriptive literature, “partition” can refer to physical barriers within living spaces—a glazed wall or thin dividing structure that separates rooms and infuses intimacy or tension into a scene [6][7]—or even to natural divides in anatomy [8]. Poets and dramatists, meanwhile, employ the term metaphorically to explore themes of separation and union, such as the delicate boundary that keeps entities apart even in their inherent connectedness [9].
- The ``Partition a Hard Disk'' menu item presents you with a list of disk drives you can partition and runs a partitioning application called cfdisk .
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - Your swap partition should now be listed as a Linux swap partition under the ``FS Type'' column in the main screen.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - By default, a Linux native partition was created.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - Some pretenders even to the crown; and those who did not pretend to the whole, aimed at the partition of the monarchy.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - The partition of Poland is a theorem of which all present political outrages are the corollaries.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - The alcove served me for a closet by means of a glazed partition and a chimney I had made there.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - As the partition wall was thin, they could hear the clatter of the forks on the plates in the dining-room.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - The nasal fossae are situated on either side of the median partition formed by the vomer and cartilaginous nasal septum.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
