The difference between Divorce and Partition

When used as nouns, divorce means the legal dissolution of a marriage, whereas partition means an action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

When used as verbs, divorce means to legally dissolve a marriage between two people, whereas partition means to divide something into parts, sections or shares.


check bellow for the other definitions of Divorce and Partition

  1. Divorce as a noun:

    The legal dissolution of a marriage.

    Examples:

    "Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene."

  2. Divorce as a noun:

    A separation of connected things.

    Examples:

    "The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines."

  3. Divorce as a noun (obsolete):

    That which separates.

  1. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

    Examples:

    "A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."

  2. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

    Examples:

    "Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful."

  3. Divorce as a verb (intransitive):

    To obtain a legal divorce.

    Examples:

    "Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business."

  4. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To separate something that was connected.

    Examples:

    "The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement."

  1. Partition as a noun:

    An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.

  2. Partition as a noun:

    A part of something that has been divided.

  3. Partition as a noun (math):

    An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.

  4. Partition as a noun:

    The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.

    Examples:

    "Monarchies where partition isn't prohibited risk weakening trough parcellation and civil wars between the heirs"

  5. Partition as a noun:

    A vertical structure that divides a room.

    Examples:

    "a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions"

  6. Partition as a noun:

    That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.

  7. Partition as a noun:

    A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

  8. Partition as a noun (legal):

    The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.

  9. Partition as a noun (computing):

    A section of a hard disk separately formatted.

  10. Partition as a noun (databases):

    A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.

  11. Partition as a noun (set theory):

    A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).

  12. Partition as a noun (music):

    A musical score.

  1. Partition as a verb:

    To divide something into parts, sections or shares

  2. Partition as a verb:

    To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status

  3. Partition as a verb:

    To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off