partition
/pɑːˈtɪʃən/ nounDefinition
› [C] WORKPLACE a thin wall which is used to divide one part of a room, office, etc. from another part: She works in an open-plan office with glass partitions.
› [C] IT one of several parts into which a computerhard drive can be divided: The operating systems are on different partitions.
› [U] POLITICS the act of dividing a country into separate political units: The violence that followed partition led many people to leave India.
(Definition of partition noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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