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MATHEMATICS

List Of Partition Topics

Partition Of A Set , a collection of non-empty subsets such that every element belongs to one and only one of the subsets

Integer Partition , a way to write a positive integer as a sum of other positive integers

The Partition Function (number Theory) , gives the number of different ways to partition a number

A Partition Of Unity is a set of functions whose sum is the constant function 1

Partition Of An Interval , used in the theory of the Riemann integral and the Riemann-Stieltjes integral

PHYSICS

Partition Function (statistical Mechanics) .

Partition Function (quantum Field Theory) .

CHEMISTRY

Nernst partition law

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Partition (computing) , the dividing of a hard disk's storage space into independent parts

Partition (mainframe) , for dividing a computer into several independent virtual computers

Partition also refers to an algorithm used in Quicksort which separates a list into two sublists, those elements less than or equal to a value and those greater than it. It is also used in Selection Algorithm s.

Partition (database) for splitting a database.

Partition Problem , an NP-Complete problem that answers the question: "Given a set of integers, does the set contain two independent subsets such that the sum of each subset is equal?"

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Partitions Of Poland and Poland-Lithuania in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine (region)

Partition Of India ( Greater India ) in 1947 into India Proper and Pakistan (including East Pakistan )

Partition Of Ireland in 1921 into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland

Partition Of Persia

Treaty Of Kars of 1921, which partioned Armenia between Turkey and the Soviet Union ( Western and Eastern Armenia )

LAW

Partition (law) , to divide up a piece of land into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants

MUSIC

In Music using the Twelve Tone Technique the use of methods to create segments from sets, most often through Registral difference. The opposite of Derivation used in Derived Row s. +

More generally, in Musical Set Theory partitioning is the division of the domain of pitch class sets into types, such as transpositional type, see Equivalence Class and Cardinality . +

an old name for types of compositions in several parts; there is no fixed meaning, and in several cases the term was reportedly interchanged with various other terms

SEE ALSO

Division (disambiguation)