Noun : A partition of the set (.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to partition off a dormitory into cubicles.    From Dictionary.com. 

All the distros have 3 major problems – the install when you get to the partitioning is a nightmare, new language, unclear options.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle Of The Linux Distros | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

COOPER: What do you make of the idea of partitioning Iraq?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006] Reference

Using a technique called partitioning you can split an existing hard disk up and create an area specifically for Windows 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The most recent News from Computeractive] Reference

Amongst the other, there has to be so called partitioning column defined, which has trusted CHECK constraint defined on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web] Reference

One that has gained some steam recently is the idea of partitioning the country, basically carving it up into three major sections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006] Reference

This new version will bring enhancement such as partitioning and parallel load.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

The problem shapes how Cambridge-based CSR implements projects, "partitioning" intellectual property under an information access system.    From Wordnik.com.  ["MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader] Reference

The partitioning is a no starter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006] Reference

I believe we ought to look at partitioning the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2006] Reference

Inside, you can see that they are already partitioning it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2005] Reference

One part of this process involves partitioning your hard drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Is partitioning the country the only way for Iraqis and for America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006] Reference

It is not even that he could not abide the partitioning of Jerusalem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middle East After Arafat...] Reference

A PC BIOS generally adds additional constraints for disk partitioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

And a lot of People talk about partitioning, as well as a possibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007] Reference

HARRIS: Hey, Michael, is that an argument for partitioning the country?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference

CHETRY: And he also was for -- he put forth this plan of partitioning Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2008] Reference

Initialize and Activate a | Initialize and Activate a hard disks partitioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

` ` Primary '' partitions are the original partitioning scheme for PC hard disks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

For this example, the assumption is that you are partitioning an empty hard disk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Today, the White House ruling out any cutting and running or partitioning of Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference

Moreover, you must initialize any partitions that you created in the disk partitioning step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

In general, the partitioning situation varies from computer to computer depending on its uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Reconstruction, partitioning, possibly a little kingdom, probably under the Orleans régime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference

A unified and peaceful Iraq seems a distant dream, but it's unclear if partitioning is the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2007] Reference

Germans and Austrians would mean a new partitioning of Poland, a yet greater wreckage of our nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference

FOREMAN: But, Jim, one of the arguments has been that Iraq, for better or worse, has been partitioning itself anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2007] Reference

Disk space requirements and your partitioning scheme are influenced by the type of installation you decide to create.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

By this partitioning of space Milton was able to contrive a system which fulfilled the requirements of his great poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

FOREMAN: Rajiv, one of the things that has been raised over and over again has been this idea of partitioning the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2007] Reference

The following sections contain information regarding partitioning in your native operating system prior to Debian installation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

Otherwise, it is not really necessary to partition from DOS or Windows; the Linux partitioning tools will generally do a better job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage] Reference

HARRIS: Options in Iraq -- partitioning, phased withdrawal or sending in more troops -- all non-starters says a top American general.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2006] Reference

Montenegro - responded with armed resistance aimed at partitioning the republic along ethnic lines and joining Serb-held areas to form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

As a boy I built up a colony of more than fifteen pairs of these birds by the simple device of rudely partitioning a couple of soap boxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bird Study Book] Reference