1. An analysis into mutually exclusive categories
   - breakdown 
2. The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
   - division, partition, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation [Brit]

1. Divide into parts, pieces, or sections
   "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British"
   - partition off 
2. Separate or apportion into sections
   "partition a room off"
   - zone

Derived forms: partitionings

See also: partitionist

Type of: analysis, analytic thinking, divide, part, separate, separation

Encyclopedia: Partition

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