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Generally, a partition is a splitting of something into parts. The term is used in a variety of senses:

CHEMISTRY

Nernst partition law

Partitioning, a synonym for Liquid-liquid Extraction

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Disk Partitioning , 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 and access.

Partition Problem , an NP-complete problem: given a set of integers, can the set be partitioned into two subsets with equal sums?

LAW

Partition (law) , to divide up a piece of land into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the Tenants . It may also consist of dividing a property with Common Ownership into identifiable individual Ownership .

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

Partition (number Theory) , a way to write a positive integer as a sum of other positive integers; the partition function gives the number of different ways to partition a number

Partition Problem , an NP-complete problem: given a set of integers, can the set be partitioned into two subsets with equal sums?

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

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

MUSIC

See Also: Partition (music)

MOVIE

Partition (film)

Partition (1987 Film)

PHYSICS

Partition Function (statistical Mechanics) .

Partition Function (quantum Field Theory) .

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Partition (politics)

Notable examples are:

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

1905 Partition Of Bengal and 1947 Partition Of Bengal

Partition Of India (colonial British India) in 1947 into the independent dominions (later republics) of India and Pakistan (which included modern day Bangladesh)

Partition Of Punjab in 1966 into the states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh

Partition Of Pakistan in 1971, when East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Liberation War

1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine (region)

Partition Of Ireland in 1920 into the independent Irish Free State and (British) Northern Ireland

Treaty Of Kars of 1921, which partitioned Ottoman Armenia between the republic of Turkey and the then Soviet Union (Western and Eastern Armenia)

Partition Of Vietnam in 1954

Partitions Of Luxembourg , last in 1838 into Duchy of Luxembourg and Belgian province

The hypothetical Partition Of The Canadian Province Of Quebec

SEE ALSO

Division (disambiguation)

Stratification