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Baffle vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

Baffle vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Baffle and Partition

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Baffle

To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action
A patient whose condition baffled the physicians.

Partition

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

Baffle

To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).

Partition

The state of being so divided.

Baffle

A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.
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Partition

Something that divides or separates, as a lightweight wall dividing one room or cubicle from another.

Baffle

A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.

Partition

A wall, septum, or other separating membrane in an organism.

Baffle

To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.

Partition

A part or section into which something has been divided.

Baffle

(intransitive) To struggle in vain.
A ship baffles with the winds.

Partition

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

Baffle

To foil; to thwart.

Partition

An expression of a positive integer as a sum of positive integers.

Baffle

(obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

Partition

The decomposition of a set into a family of disjoint sets.

Baffle

(obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).

Partition

(Computers) A section of storage space on a hard disk.

Baffle

A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
Sound baffle
Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.

Partition

(Law) Division of property, especially real property, between co-owners into equivalent, separately owned portions or shares.

Baffle

An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

Partition

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

Baffle

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

Partition

To divide or separate by means of a partition
We partitioned off the alcove to make another bedroom.

Baffle

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
He by the heels him hung upon a tree,And baffled so, that all which passed byThe picture of his punishment might see.

Partition

To divide (a country) into separate, autonomous nations.

Baffle

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.

Partition

An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

Baffle

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.

Partition

A part of something that has been divided.

Baffle

To practice deceit.

Partition

(math) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.

Baffle

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Partition

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.

Baffle

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

Partition

A vertical structure that divides a room.
A brick partition; lath and plaster partitions

Baffle

A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.

Partition

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

Baffle

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

Partition

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

Baffle

A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

Partition

(legal) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

Baffle

Be a mystery or bewildering to;
This beats me!
Got me--I don't know the answer!
A vexing problem
This question really stuck me

Partition

(computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

Baffle

Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
Foil your opponent

Partition

(databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

Baffle

Check the emission of (sound)

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).

Partition

(music) A musical score.

Partition

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
To partition a hard drive

Partition

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.

Partition

To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

Partition

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
And good from bad find no partition.

Partition

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, a compartment of a room, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions; cubicles with four-foot high partitions.
No sight could passBetwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

Partition

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

Partition

The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

Partition

A score.

Partition

To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.

Partition

To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
Uniform without, though severally partitioned within.

Partition

A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)

Partition

The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

Partition

(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit

Partition

Divide into parts, pieces, or sections;
The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British

Partition

Separate or apportion into sections;
Partition a room off

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