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 Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, Conducting, conductor, arranger, and Record producer, record producer, best known for his film, television, and video game scores. In his 24-year career, Tyler has scored ''Trans ...

Law and politics

Partition (law) A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the owners of property. It is sometimes ...

, the division of an estate *

Partition (politics) In politics, a partition is a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory considered a homeland by some community.Brendan O'LearyDEBATING PARTITION: JUSTIFICATIONS AND CRITIQUES Arguments for * historicist – that par ...

, a change of political borders, including: **

Partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

Partition of Ireland The partition of Ireland ( ga, críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divided History of Ireland (1801–1923), Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northe ...

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 is a form of resource management applied to computer memory. The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate portions of memory to programs at their request, and free it for reuse when ...

technique *

Partition (database) A partition is a division of a logical database or its constituent elements into distinct independent parts. Database partitioning is normally done for manageability, performance or availability reasons, or for load balancing. It is popular in ...

, the division of a logical database *

Logical partition A logical partition (LPAR) is a subset of a computer's hardware resources, virtualized as a separate computer. In effect, a physical machine can be partitioned into multiple logical partitions, each hosting a separate instance of an operating ...

, a subset of a computer's resources, virtualized as a separate computer *

Binary space partitioning In computer science, binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for space partitioning which recursively subdivides a Euclidean space into two convex sets by using hyperplanes as partitions. This process of subdividing gives rise to a represe ...

, in computer science *

Partition problem In number theory and computer science, the partition problem, or number partitioning, is the task of deciding whether a given multiset ''S'' of positive integers can be partitioned into two subsets ''S''1 and ''S''2 such that the sum of the numbers ...

, in number theory and computer science

Mathematics

Integer partition In number theory and combinatorics, a partition of a positive integer , also called an integer partition, is a way of writing as a sum of positive integers. Two sums that differ only in the order of their summands are considered the same part ...

, 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. Th ...

, a way to write an integer as a product of other integers *

Partition of an interval In mathematics, a partition of an interval on the real line is a finite sequence of real numbers such that :. In other terms, a partition of a compact interval is a strictly increasing sequence of numbers (belonging to the interval itsel ...

, a finite sequence of real numbers *

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

, grouping elements of a set *

Partition of unity In mathematics, a partition of unity of a topological space is a set of continuous functions from to the unit interval ,1such that for every point x\in X: * there is a neighbourhood of where all but a finite number of the functions of are ...

, of a topological space *

Plane partition In mathematics and especially in combinatorics, a plane partition is a two-dimensional array of nonnegative integers \pi_ (with positive integer indices ''i'' and ''j'') that is nonincreasing in both indices. This means that : \pi_ \ge \pi_ and \ ...

, in mathematics and especially combinatorics *

Graph partition In mathematics, a graph partition is the reduction of a graph to a smaller graph by partitioning its set of nodes into mutually exclusive groups. Edges of the original graph that cross between the groups will produce edges in the partitioned graph ...

, the reduction of a graph to a smaller graph

Other uses

* Folding screen, a piece of furniture * Portable partition, a form of temporary walls * Ljubljanica Sluice Gate, or the Partition (''Pregrada'') *

Division of the field In heraldry, the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures, usually following the lines of one of the ordinaries and carrying its name (e.g. a shield divided in the shape of a ...

, or partition of the field, in heraldry