Division vs. Partition — What's the Difference?

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated

The act or process of dividing something into parts.

Difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension

The state of being so divided.

The process of dividing one number by another

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

Each of the parts into which something is divided

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

A partition

A part or section into which something has been divided.

The act or process of dividing.

Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.

The state of having been divided.

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

(Mathematics) The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.

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

The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity

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

Something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.

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

One of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.

To divide into parts, pieces, or sections.

An area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.

To divide or separate by means of a partition

A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.

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

An administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.

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

A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the US Navy.

A part of something that has been divided.

A former unit of the US Air Force that was larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.

(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.

(Botany) The taxonomic category ranking just below kingdom, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification.

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

A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.

A vertical structure that divides a room.

Variance of opinion; disagreement.

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 splitting into factions; disunion.

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

The physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.

(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.

(Biology) Cell division.

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

A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

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

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

(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).

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

(music) A musical score.

The process of dividing a number by another.

To divide something into parts, sections or shares.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

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

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

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

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

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

(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

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 disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

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

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

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

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

A score.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

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

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

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

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

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

A lesson; a class.

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

(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

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

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

Divide into parts, pieces, or sections;

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Separate or apportion into sections;

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

An army unit large enough to sustain combat;

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

The act or process of dividing

An administrative unit in government or business

An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

Discord that splits a group

A league ranked by quality;

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

A group of ships of similar type

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