PARTITION

Generally, a 'partition' is a splitting of something into parts. The term is used in a variety of senses:

Contents

Chemistry

Computer science

Law

Mathematics

Music

Movie

Physics

Political geography

See also

Chemistry

★ Nernst partition law

★ Partitioning, a synonym for liquid-liquid extraction

Computer science

★ Disk partitioning, the dividing of a hard disk's storage space into independent parts

★ Partition (mainframe), for dividing a computer into several independent virtual computers

★ Partition also refers to an algorithm used in quicksort which separates a list into two sublists, those elements less than or equal to a value and those greater than it. It is also used in selection algorithms.

★ Partition (database) for splitting a database and access.

★ Partition problem, an NP-complete problem: given a set of integers, can the set be partitioned into two subsets with equal sums?

Law

★ Partition (law), to divide up a piece of land into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants. It may also consist of dividing a property with common ownership into identifiable individual ownership.

Mathematics

★ List of partition topics

★ Partition of a set, a collection of non-empty subsets such that every element belongs to one and only one of the subsets

★ Partition (number theory), a way to write a positive integer as a sum of other positive integers; the partition function gives the number of different ways to partition a number

★ Partition problem, an NP-complete problem: given a set of integers, can the set be partitioned into two subsets with equal sums?

★ A partition of unity is a set of functions whose sum is the constant function

★ Partition of an interval, used in the theory of the Riemann integral and the Riemann-Stieltjes integral

Music

Main articles: Partition (music)

Movie

★ Partition (film)

★ Partition (1987 film)

Physics

★ Partition function (statistical mechanics).

★ Partition function (quantum field theory).

Political geography

★ partition (politics)
Notable examples are:

★ Partitions of Poland and Poland-Lithuania in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

★ 1905 Partition of Bengal and 1947 Partition of Bengal

★ Partition of India (colonial British India) in 1947 into the independent dominions (later republics) of India and Pakistan (which included modern day Bangladesh)

★ Partition of Punjab in 1966 into the states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh

★ Partition of Pakistan in 1971, when East Pakistan became the independent nation of Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Liberation War

★ 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine (region)

★ Partition of Ireland in 1920 into the independent Irish Free State and (British) Northern Ireland

★ Treaty of Kars of 1921, which partitioned Ottoman Armenia between the republic of Turkey and the then Soviet Union (Western and Eastern Armenia)

★ Partition of Vietnam in 1954

★ Partitions of Luxembourg, last in 1838 into Duchy of Luxembourg and Belgian province

★ The hypothetical partition of the Canadian province of Quebec

See also

★ Division (disambiguation)

★ Stratification