partition

1. 1.

   divide into parts, pieces, or sections

   “The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British”

   Synonymspartition off

   Broaderseparate

   Narrowerpound
2. 2.

   separate or apportion into sections

   “partition a room off”

   Synonymszone

   Broaderseparate

   Narrowerscreen off

Other forms of partition

plural

partitions·

past tense

partitioned·

present participle

partitioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about partition

What does partition mean?

partition means "a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in partition?

partition has 3 syllables: par-tit-ion. The stress falls on "tit". In IPA it is /pɑɹˈtɪʃən/.

What is another word for partition?

Close synonyms include divider, division, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is partition a common word?

partition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with partition?

14 words rhyme with partition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.