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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), a segment created from a set
• "Partition" (song), by Beyoncé, 2014
• Partition, soundtrack to the 2007 film by Brian Tyler

Law and politics

• Partition (law), the division of an estate
• Partition (politics), a change of political borders, including:
  • Partition of India
  • Partition of Ireland

Science and technology

Computing

• Disk partitioning, the division of a hard disk drive
• Memory partition, a memory management technique
• Partition (database), the division of a logical database
• Logical partition, a subset of a computer's resources, virtualized as a separate computer
• Binary space partitioning, in computer science
• Partition problem, in number theory and computer science

Mathematics

• Integer partition, a way to write an integer as a sum of other integers
• Multiplicative partition, a way to write an integer as a product of other integers
• Partition of an interval, a finite sequence of real numbers
• Partition of a set, grouping elements of a set
• Partition of unity, of a topological space
• Plane partition, in mathematics and especially combinatorics
• Graph partition, 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, or partition of the field, in heraldry