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Disjoint vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

Disjoint vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Disjoint and Partition

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Disjoint

To put out of joint; dislocate.

Partition

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

Disjoint

To take apart at the joints.

Partition

The state of being so divided.

Disjoint

To destroy the coherence or connections of.
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Partition

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

Disjoint

To separate; disjoin.

Partition

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

Disjoint

To come apart at the joints.

Partition

A part or section into which something has been divided.

Disjoint

To become dislocated.

Partition

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

Disjoint

Having no elements in common. Used of sets.

Partition

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

Disjoint

Not smooth or continuous; disjointed.

Partition

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

Disjoint

Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.

Partition

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

Disjoint

To render disjoint; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
To disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint poultry by carving

Partition

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

Disjoint

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
A disjointed speech

Partition

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

Disjoint

(obsolete) To fall into pieces.

Partition

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

Disjoint

Disjointed; unconnected; - opposed to conjoint.

Partition

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

Disjoint

Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Partition

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

Disjoint

To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame,But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?

Partition

A part of something that has been divided.

Disjoint

To separate at junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as, disjointed columns; to disjoint an edifice.
Some half-ruined wallDisjointed and about to fall.

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.

Disjoint

To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.

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.

Disjoint

To fall in pieces.

Partition

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

Disjoint

Part; cease or break association with;
She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president

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.

Disjoint

Separate at the joints;
Disjoint the chicken before cooking it

Partition

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

Disjoint

Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

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.

Disjoint

Become separated, disconnected or disjoint

Partition

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

Disjoint

Having no elements in common

Partition

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

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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