Usually means: Dividing something into smaller sections.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. partitions: Merriam-Webster
  2. partitions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. partitions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Partitions, partition's, partitions: Wordnik
  5. partitions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. partitions: Wiktionary
  7. partitions: Dictionary.com
  8. partitions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Partitions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. partitions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. partitions: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. partitions: Legal dictionary
  3. partitions: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Partitions: CCI Computer
  2. partitions: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. partitions: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. partitions: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partitions: Idioms

(Note: See partition as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (partition)

noun:  An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
noun:  A part of something that has been divided.
noun:  (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
noun:  The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
noun:  A vertical structure that divides a room.
noun:  That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
noun:  A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
noun:  (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
noun:  (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
noun:  (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
noun:  (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
noun:  (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
noun:  (music) A musical score.
verb:  To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
verb:  To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
verb:  To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.
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