Partition may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Partition'' (1987 film), directed by Ken McMullen * ''Partition'' (2007 film), directed by Vic Sarin * '' Partition: 1947'', or ''Viceroy's House'', a 2017 film

Music

Partition (music) In music using the twelve-tone technique, derivation is the construction of a row through segments. A derived row is a tone row whose entirety of twelve tones is constructed from a segment or portion of the whole, the generator. Anton Webern often ...

, a segment created from a set * "Partition" (song), by Beyoncé, 2014 * ''Partition'', soundtrack to the 2007 film by Brian Tyler

Law and politics

* Partition (law), the division of an estate *

Partition (politics) In international relations, a partition is a division of a previously unified territory into two or more parts. Brendan O'Leary distinguishes partition, a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland ...

, a change of political borders, including: **

Partition of India The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...

** Partition of Ireland **

Partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partition (politics), partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th century. They ended the existence of the state, resulting in the eli ...

Science and technology

Computing

Disk partitioning Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. It is typically the first step of preparing a newly installed disk ...

, the division of a hard disk drive * Memory partition, a

memory management Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of Resource management (computing), resource management applied to computer memory. The essential requirement of memory manag ...

technique * Partition (database), the division of a logical database * Logical partition, a subset of a computer's resources, virtualized as a separate computer * Binary space partitioning, in computer science * Partition problem, in number theory and computer science

Mathematics

* Integer partition, a way to write an integer as a sum of other integers *

Multiplicative partition In number theory, a multiplicative partition or unordered factorization of an integer n is a way of writing n as a product of integers greater than 1, treating two products as equivalent if they differ only in the ordering of the factors. The number ...

, a way to write an integer as a product of other integers * Partition of an interval, a finite sequence of real numbers *

Partition of a set In mathematics, a partition of a set is a grouping of its elements into Empty set, non-empty subsets, in such a way that every element is included in exactly one subset. Every equivalence relation on a Set (mathematics), set defines a partitio ...

, grouping elements of a set *

Partition of unity In mathematics, a partition of unity on a topological space is a Set (mathematics), set of continuous function (topology), continuous functions from to the unit interval ,1such that for every point x\in X: * there is a neighbourhood (mathem ...

, of a topological space * Plane partition, in mathematics and especially combinatorics *

Graph partition In mathematics, a graph partition is the reduction of a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph to a smaller graph by partition of a set, partitioning its set of nodes into mutually exclusive groups. Edges of the original graph that cross between the g ...

, the reduction of a graph to a smaller graph

Other uses

Folding screen A folding screen, also known as pingfeng (), is a type of free-standing furniture consisting of several frames or panels, which are often connected by hinges or by other means. They have practical and decorative uses, and can be made in a variet ...

, a piece of furniture * Portable partition, a form of temporary walls * Ljubljanica Sluice Gate, or the Partition (''Pregrada'') * Division of the field, or partition of the field, in heraldry