Divider
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An object that separates. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length. The median of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated. A person who separates or classifies.
Partition
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from anotherA part of something that had been divided, each of its results.The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.A vertical structure that divides a room.A section of a hard disk separately formatted.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).
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To divide something into parts, sections or sharesTo divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political statusTo separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
Example sentence: I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.