Phonetic symbols

A partition is a division or separation of something into parts.

Root-based analysis

The word 'partition' comes from the Latin 'partitio', meaning 'a sharing, division, partition', combined with the suffix '-ition', which forms nouns of action or condition.

• partfrom Latin 'partitio', meaning 'a sharing, division, partition'
• -itionsuffix forming nouns of action or condition

Examples

• partfrom Latin 'pars', meaning 'a part, piece, division'
• participlefrom Latin 'participium', meaning 'a sharing, partaking'

Practice

• departitionthe act of removing partitions
• repartitionthe act of partitioning again

Make a sentence

• The partition of the country into two states caused a lot of conflicts.
• She used a bookcase as a partition to divide the room into two areas.
• The hard drive was divided into several partitions to organize the data more efficiently.