A partition is a wall or screen that separates one part of a room or vehicle from another.
例句
...new offices divided only by glass partitions...只用玻璃隔板隔開的新辦公室Her taxicab has a thick perspex partition between the passengers' seats and the driver.她的出租車里乘客座位和駕駛員之間裝著厚厚的有機玻璃隔板。
VERB
（用隔板、隔扇等）隔開，分隔
If you partition a room, you separate one part of it from another by means of a partition.
例句
Bedrooms have again been created by partitioning a single larger room...通過將一間大屋用隔斷斷開的方法再隔出了幾間臥室。He sat on the two-seater sofa in the partitioned office.他坐在用隔板隔開的辦公室里的雙人沙發(fā)上。
VERB
分割，分裂（國家）
If a country is partitioned, it is divided into two or more independent countries.
例句
...for the first time since Ireland was partitioned...自愛爾蘭被分裂后第一次Britain was accused of trying to partition the country 'because of historic enmity'...英國被指“出于歷史仇恨”企圖分裂該國。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
2. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart