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partition
This entry is located in the following units: part-, parti- (page 4) -tion (page 17)
partition, petition
partition (pahr TISH uhn) (verb)
To divide or to separate: Benjamin built a new fence to partition his fields from those of his neighbor.
petition (puh TISH uhn) (noun)
A formal request signed by several individuals that is given to an authoritative body, or an individual, requesting a specific action or decision: The governmental agency received a petition from the voters with a significant number of signatures.

Several thousand voters signed the petition to allow for the partition of a large county into two smaller counties.

This entry is located in the following unit: Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. + (page 2)
sept-, septi-, septo-
(Latin: a partition; a dividing wall between two spaces, tissues, or cavities; from saepire "to enclose, to hedge in", and from saepes, "fence, hedge")