Question

what is meant by partitions ?

Answer 1

The act or process of dividing something into parts.
The state of being so divided.
Something that divides or separates, as a wall dividing one room or cubicle from another.
A wall, septum, or other separating membrane in an organism.
A part or section into which something has been divided.
Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
Mathematics.
An expression of a positive integer as a sum of positive integers.
The decomposition of a set into a family of disjoint sets.
Computer Science. A section of storage space on a hard disk.
Law. Division of property, especially real estate.


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Answer 2

In what context? hard drives or Mathematics

Answer 3

@nczempin i actually want to know the description of types of partitions

Answer 4

@nczempin in hard drive context