Bulkhead vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

One of the upright partitions dividing a ship into compartments and serving to add structural rigidity and to prevent the spread of leakage or fire.

Divide into parts, pieces, or sections;

A partition or wall serving a similar purpose in a vehicle, such as an aircraft or spacecraft.

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

A wall or an embankment, as in a mine or along a waterfront, that acts as a protective barrier.

The state of being so divided.

Chiefly New England A horizontal or sloping structure on the outside of a building, providing access to a cellar stairway.

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

(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.

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

A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.

A part or section into which something has been divided.

Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.

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

A retaining wall along a waterfront.

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

A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

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

A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.

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

A partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

To divide or separate by means of a partition

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

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

A part of something that has been divided.

(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.

The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

A vertical structure that divides a room.

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

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

(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.

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

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

(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).

(music) A musical score.

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.

To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.

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

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.

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.

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

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

A score.

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

To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.

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

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

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

Separate or apportion into sections;