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# partition

«partition» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin wall or screen that divides a room into parts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a partition, partitions); verb (partition, partitions, partitioned, partitioning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thin wall or screen that divides a room into parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#m1)

2) Verb: to divide something into parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#m2)

3) (maths) To split a number into parts, often by place value: 345 = 300 + 40 + 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#m3)

4) The division of a country into separate countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In primary maths, «partition» is a key method: split 47 into 40 + 7 to add or multiply more easily; numbers can be partitioned in different ways (47 = 30 + 17). In buildings, partitions make offices. In history, «partition» means a country split into parts (like the partition of India, or of Ireland).

### examples

- Partition 563 into hundreds, tens and ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x1)
- 56 can be partitioned into 50 and 6, or 40 and 16. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x2)
- A glass partition separates the two offices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x3)
- They partitioned the attic into two bedrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x4)
- Partition 24 to work out 24 × 3: 20 × 3 + 4 × 3 = 72. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x5)
- The partition of the country made new borders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x6)
- Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins and hides, raw and tanned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/#x7)

### note

In maths, partitioning never changes the total: the parts always add back to the whole. Spelling: -tion. Verb stress same as noun: par-TI-shun.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «partition» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partition/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.