(computing) A disk partition designated as auxiliary memory, used primarily on Unix and Linux systems.

(mathematics) The expression of a given even number as the sum of two primes; involved in Goldbach's conjecture.

plural of Goldbach partition

plural of swap partition

(grammar) A noun case used to indicate that an object is affected only partially by the verb, or that the effect is not real. It often corresponds roughly to the English words "some" or "any." It is similar in many ways to the genitive case. Some languages that make use of the partitive case include Finnish and Estonian.

plural of partition coefficient

plural of partition of unity

plural of partition function

(mathematics) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics / (number theory) function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.

plural of partitive ablative