Meaning & use
Partitioned
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Divided something into separate parts or sections.
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The engineers partitioned the hard drive into three separate volumes.
British India was partitioned into two independent nations in 1947.
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Widely used in both computing, for dividing storage, and history or politics, for dividing territory.
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