Partition

(noun.) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).

(noun.) (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism.

(noun.) (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit.

(verb.) separate or apportion into sections; 'partition a room off'.

(verb.) divide into parts, pieces, or sections; 'The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British'.

校对:卢瑟

• This was accomplished by fastening a charge of gunpowder in such a way that when exploded it would break the partition and mix the solutions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The non-magnetic gangue descends in a straight line to the other side of the partition. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Apparently they were coming from the opposite side of the partition against which I leaned and presently I made out the tones of Dejah Thoris. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• A hopper with adjustable feed is supported several feet above a bin having a central partition. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The records are tested by about half a hundred women, each of whom has a little compartment or booth framed in by glass partitions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The arms are formed by curved partitions between the discs, which radiate from the centre to the outer rim, towards which the space between the discs is contracted. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The prison was divided into several rooms by partitions twenty feet high. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The kick-backs are the two partitions, shaped somewhat like a ship’s rudder, which form the two pit sides. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There is a certain suggestiveness in the way the machines are separated by partitions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was a bare room, partitioned off from the gallery with unpainted wood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The latter were kept apart, and the former were partitioned off into square assortments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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