Partition
Partition (Latin partitioned division, classification, structure ) or partitioning stands for:
- The country's division in politics
- In set theory a subdivision of quantities, see Partition ( set theory )
- The division of a circuit into sub-circuits (partitions) in the layout or chip design
- The subdivision of volumes, see partition (disk )
- The allocation of a server for simultaneous use by multiple operating system instances, see Server Partitioning
- Databases at the division one table into several parts, see denormalization # partitioning
- A file system ( Library) on IBM mainframes, see Partitioned Data Set
- A decision problem in theoretical computer science, see Partitioning Problem
- In number theory, the partition function
- In the topology and geometry of the differential partition of unity
- In graph theory, a special decomposition of the vertex set of a graph, see k- graph partiter