partition

An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

A vertical structure that divides a room.

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

A part of something that has been divided.

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).

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).

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.

A musical score.

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.

To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.

To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.