different between subdivide vs partition

English

Etymology

sub- +? divide

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?b.d??va?d/

Verb

subdivide (third-person singular simple present subdivides, present participle subdividing, simple past and past participle subdivided)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
   1. (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.

      This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.

      • 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 3:

        Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici

     The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.

Related terms

• subdivision

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub?di?.u?i.de/, [s??b?d?i?u??d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sub?di.vi.de/, [sub?d?i?vid??]

Verb

subd?vide

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subd?vid?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /subdi?bide/, [su??.ð?i???i.ð?e]

Verb

subdivide

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subdividir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subdividir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subdividir.

English

Etymology

Recorded c.1430, "division into shares, distinction," borrowed from Old French particion (modern partition), from Latin partitio, partitionem (“division, portion”), from partitus, the past participle of partire (“to split (up), part(ition)”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: pärt?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /p???t???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

partition (countable and uncountable, plural partitions)

1. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
2. A part of something that has been divided.
3. (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
4. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

5. A vertical structure that divides a room.

   a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions

6. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

   • No sight could pass / Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

7. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
8. (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
9. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
10. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
11. (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
12. (music) A musical score.

Usage notes

• (set theory): The elements of the collection are sometimes called the blocks or parts of the partition.

Synonyms

• dismemberment

Derived terms

• equipartition

Related terms

• partite

Translations

Verb

partition (third-person singular simple present partitions, present participle partitioning, simple past and past participle partitioned)(transitive)

1. To divide something into parts, sections or shares
2. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
3. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off

Synonyms

• dismember

Derived terms

• partitioner
• partitionist

Related terms

• partner

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin part?ti?, part?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as partir +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.ti.sj??/

Noun

partition f (plural partitions)

1. (heraldry) a (geometrical) division using two colors
2. (music) a score, often comprising all parts
3. (databases, computing) partition

Derived terms

• partitionner
• partitionnement
• partitionniste

Further reading

• “partition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).