Divide vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

Separate or be separated into parts

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

Disagree or cause to disagree

The state of being so divided.

Find how many times (a number) contains another

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

A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension

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

To separate into parts, sections, groups, or branches

A part or section into which something has been divided.

To form a border or barrier between

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

To sector into units of measurement; graduate

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

To group according to kind; classify or assign

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

To cause to separate into opposing factions; disunite

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

To cause (members of a parliament) to vote by separating into groups, as pro and con.

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

To give out or apportion among a number

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

To subject (a number) to the process of division

To divide or separate by means of a partition

To be a divisor of

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

To use (a number) as a divisor

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

To become separated into parts

A part of something that has been divided.

To branch out, as a river or a blood vessel.

(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.

To form into factions; take sides

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

To vote by dividing.

A vertical structure that divides a room.

(Mathematics) To perform the operation of division.

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

(Biology) To undergo cell division.

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

A dividing point or line

(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.

See watershed.

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

(transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

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

(transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.

(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).

To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).

(music) A musical score.

To be a divisor of.

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.

(intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.

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

Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

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

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

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

(obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.

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.

(obsolete) To have a share; to partake.

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

To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

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

To mark divisions on; to graduate.

A score.

(music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

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

A thing that divides.

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

An act of dividing.

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

A distancing between two people or things.

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

(geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

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

(hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.

Divide into parts, pieces, or sections;

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

Separate or apportion into sections;

To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.

To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.

To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.

To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.

To subject to arithmetical division.

To separate into species; - said of a genus or generic term.

To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.

To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.

To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.

To cause separation; to disunite.

To break friendship; to fall out.

To have a share; to partake.

To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.

A dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; also called watershed and water parting. A divide on either side of which the waters drain into two different oceans is called a continental divide.

A serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)

A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

Separate into parts or portions;

Perform a division;

Act as a barrier between; stand between;

Come apart;

Make a division or separation

Force, take, or pull apart;