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A partition is a wall or divider that splits a space into separate parts, often not a full solid wall, like an office partition between desks. As a verb, to partition something means to divide it, and this word is especially used for dividing countries or land, often after conflict — 'the partition of India' in 1947 split British India into India and Pakistan, a huge and difficult historical event. On a computer, you can also 'partition' a hard drive, splitting it into separate sections that act like different drives.
隔間、隔板;(動詞,尤指國家)分割、分治;(電腦)磁碟分割
組成From Latin partitio, meaning 'a division' — related to 'part.'
同家族的字
- partshares the same Latin root — the basic idea of dividing into pieces
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
partitionnoun/pɑːˈtɪ.ʃən/
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An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- the partitions of Poland
- And good from bad find no partition.
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A part of something that has been divided.
- the Russian Partition
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mathematicssciencesAn approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
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The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening through parcellation and civil wars between the heirs.
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A vertical structure that divides a room.
- a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions
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That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
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A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- Lodged in a small partition.
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lawThe severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- The epicenter of the disturbance is the partition currently housing a [personality construct array] retrieved from Contender AI 05-032 <+> 0816.
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computingdatabasesengineeringA division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
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mathematicssciencesset-theoryA 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).
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical score.
partitionverb/pɑːˈtɪ.ʃən/
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To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
- to partition a hard drive
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To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
- Poland was progressively partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Prussia in the late 18th century.
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To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。