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
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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."
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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."
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Divorce as a noun (obsolete):
That which separates.
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Divorce as a verb (transitive):
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
Examples:
"A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Partition as a noun:
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
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Partition as a noun:
A part of something that has been divided.
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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.
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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"
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Partition as a noun:
A vertical structure that divides a room.
Examples:
"a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions"
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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.
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Partition as a noun:
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
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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.
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Partition as a noun (computing):
A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
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Partition as a noun (databases):
A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
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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).
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Partition as a noun (music):
A musical score.
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Partition as a verb:
To divide something into parts, sections or shares
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Partition as a verb:
To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status
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Partition as a verb:
To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off