Synonyms of the word

partition

• n. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
• n. A part of something that has been divided.
• n. (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as…
• n. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
• n. A vertical structure that divides a room.
• n. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing,…
• n. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
• n. (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected…
• n. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
• n. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate…
• n. (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e.…
• n. (music) A musical score.
• v. To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
• v. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
• v. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

divider

• n. An object that separates.
• n. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
• n. (Britain, US) The median (US) or central reservation (Britain) of a highway or other road where traffic…
• n. A person who divides or separates.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

partitioning

• v. present participle of partition.
• n. The act or result of dividing into partitions; an arrangement of partitions.

sectionalisation

• n. Alternative form of sectionalization.

sectionalization

• n. division into sections.

segmentation

• n. The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
• n. The state of being divided into segments.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

separation

• n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• n. The place at which a division occurs.
• n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
• n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
• n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

zone

• n. (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic…
• n. Any given region or area of the world.
• n. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
• n. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
• n. A band or stripe extending around a body.
• n. (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
• n. (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
• n. (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
• n. (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
• n. (chiefly sports) A high-performance phase or period.
• n. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are…
• n. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
• n. (now literary) A belt or girdle.
• n. (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by…
• n. (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
• n. A circuit; a circumference.
• v. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
• v. To define the property use classification of an area.
• v. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication;…
• v. To girdle or encircle.