partition
VERBNOUN
/pɑr'tɪʃən/
9 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH P
partition is a valid 9-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3A1R1T1I1T1I1O1N1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =11 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 22TRIPLE WORD → 33
MEANING
What does partition mean?
VERB · 2 SENSES
1
Divide into parts, pieces, or sections.
“The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British”
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2
Separate or apportion into sections.
“partition a room off”
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NOUN · 4 SENSES
1
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.
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2
A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).
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(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism.
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(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit.
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