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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
partition
/pɑɹˈtɪʃən/
noun1 of 2
a wall, screen, or piece of glass used to separate one area from another
- “I need to partition my hard drive.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To divide something into parts, sections or shares
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)