partitioning
por ti shuh ning
- n an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- n the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- v divide into parts, pieces, or sections
- v separate or apportion into sections
- In the heyday of absolutism a favorite sport of the Great Powers was partitioning Poland.
- Ved Mehta returns to his family home, lost during the violent partitioning of India and Pakistan, and discovers that the past is history.
- The Bush Administration has created such a mess in Iraq that despairing military strategists are talking about drastic, flawed measures such as taking sides or partitioning Baghdad.