Partitions
nouncandidate·updated Oct 6, 2026
Major divisions of the total physical hard disk space.
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
the act of dividing or partitioning
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a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
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(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
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(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
Classifications
Entity Type
System Component100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split
Ddorianclast reviewed —
Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)
Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- dividerpartitioningsectionalisationsectionalizationsegmentation
- alternatephrasing
- Partition
- possessive
- Partitions's
- pluralpossessive
- Partitionses'