a partition between X and Y
We installed a partition between the kitchen and the dining room.
我们在厨房和餐厅之间安装了一个隔断。
将事物分成部分或将一个事物与另一个事物分开的行为；分隔或分开的垂直结构(如墙将一个房间与另一个房间分开)；被分割的部分；(计算机科学)硬盘中专用于特定操作系统或应用程序的部分,作为一个单元访问；一种分割方法,询问每部分的大小,而不是有多少部分
a vertical structure that divides or separates; a division or separation into parts
将事物分成部分或将一个事物与另一个事物分开的行为
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
分隔或分开的垂直结构(如墙将一个房间与另一个房间分开)
a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
被分割的部分
A part of something that has been divided.
(计算机科学)硬盘中专用于特定操作系统或应用程序的部分,作为一个单元访问
(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
一种分割方法,询问每部分的大小,而不是有多少部分
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.
(解剖学)在生物体内分隔区域的结构
(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
将一个领土分成两个或多个自治领土
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
分隔房间的垂直结构
A vertical structure that divides a room.
分隔或分开的东西；将不同事物或同一事物的不同部分分开的界限、分界线或空间
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
用墙隔开的部分；房间；隔间
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
共同或未分割利益的分割,特别是在房地产中。可以通过当事人同意或法律强制实现
The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
单独格式化的硬盘分区
A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
将数据库或其构成元素如表格分成独立部分
A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
数据流的分割,如消息队列或主题(通常代表并行性和容错性单元)
A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
一个集合的非空、不相交子集的集合,其并集为集合本身(即集合的所有元素都包含在一个子集中)
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).
乐谱
A musical score.
The office is divided by a glass partition.
办公室被一扇玻璃隔墙分隔开来。
用法提示：此处“partition”为名词，意为“隔墙”。
They decided to partition the large room into smaller offices.
他们决定将大房间分隔成更小的办公室。
用法提示：此处“partition”作动词，意为“分割”。
You need to create a new partition on your hard drive.
你需要在硬盘上创建一个新分区。
用法提示：此处“partition”为名词，表示“分区”。
We installed a partition between the kitchen and the dining room.
我们在厨房和餐厅之间安装了一个隔断。
The partition of the empire was inevitable.
帝国的分裂是不可避免的。
They partitioned the country into three regions.
他们把国家划分为三个地区。
She partitioned off a corner of the room for her desk.
她隔出房间的一角放她的书桌。
可互用，但'divider'尤指可移动的隔板。
通常指轻便可移动的隔断，而非固定墙。
更坚固永久，不仅用于室内分隔。
较为抽象或技术性，常见于工程或计算机领域。
常隐含阻挡或障碍之意，语气较强。
grammar · medium
易错句子There is too much partition in this building.
正确表达There are too many partitions in this building.
中文学习者常把'partition'当作不可数名词，但英语中'partition'指具体隔断物时是可数名词，应用复数形式表示多个隔断。
grammar · medium
易错句子The partition of their relationship was painful.
正确表达The separation of their relationship was painful.
'partition'通常指物理或逻辑上的分割，不用于人际关系；表示感情或关系上的分开应用'separation'。
partition 指物理上的隔开或计算机磁盘分区，而 division 多指抽象意义上的分割、部门或除法。
隔墙
They built a partition wall to separate the living room from the dining room.
他们建了一堵隔墙，把客厅和餐厅分开。
磁盘分区
You need to create a new disk partition to install the operating system.
你需要创建一个新的磁盘分区来安装操作系统。
财产分割
The partition of property was a key issue in the divorce settlement.
财产分割是离婚协议中的关键问题。
隔开
They partitioned off a corner of the room for storage.
他们隔开房间的一个角落用于储物。
分割成
The hard drive is partitioned into two sections.
这个硬盘被分割成两个部分。
在…之间分配
The inheritance was partitioned equally among the three children.
遗产在三个孩子之间平均分配。
常与partition相关，指用隔板隔成的小工作空间。
船、飞机等内部的分隔结构，与partition功能类似。
指整体被分割成的部分，与partition的划分概念相关。
划分出的区域，常用于分区或分隔语境。
起到阻隔或分隔作用的物体，与partition的隔离功能相关。
司机，请把隔板升起来。
In Beyoncé's song 'Partition', she sings about the driver rolling up the partition for privacy.
在碧昂斯的歌曲《Partition》中，她唱到让司机升起隔板以保护隐私。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.