the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure |
a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features |
(anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism | an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic |
(computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit | any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude |