Partition
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another A 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 shares To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off
Example sentence: At the same time as we were seizing the lands that we turned into Iraq, we were devising an interesting future for our new protectorate in Palestine, and simultaneously trying to pacify Ireland, where we hit upon the solution of partition in 1921, thereby securing a peaceful resolution to the conflict only 86 years later.
Segmentation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The process of dividing into segments.