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partition

[pahr-tish-uhn, per-] / pɑrˈtɪʃ ən, pər- /




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The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

It is hard to shoehorn this spectacle of mass-integration, this enforced loss of crowns and kingdoms, into the idea of partition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The daughter of a tea trader, she moved to what is now Bangladesh with her family after the partition of India.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

The experiments revealed that bridgmanite's ability to trap water, measured by its water partition coefficient, increases sharply at higher temperatures.

From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025

Suppose that initially the molecules are all confined to the left-hand side of the box by a partition.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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