Partition — meaning in English

English meaning

• partition noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
• volume noun How loud a sound is, or the control that adjusts it.

Senses

Partition is used for these senses in English:

• partition (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
• partition (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).
• volume (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.

partition — full definition

1. noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
2. noun The division of a country or territory into separate, independently governed parts.
3. noun A separately formatted section of a computer's hard drive.
4. verb To divide something into separate parts or sections.

volume — full definition

1. noun How loud a sound is, or the control that adjusts it.
2. noun The amount of three-dimensional space something occupies, measured in cubic units.
3. noun The total amount of something, such as trade, traffic, or sales, over a period.
4. noun A single book, especially one of several forming a set.

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