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repartitioning

repartitioning is the present participle and gerund of repartition.

Meaning of repartition

Verb (1)

repartition (third-person singular simple present repartitions, present participle repartitioning, simple past and past participle repartitioned)

  1. (transitive) To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.

Verb (2)

repartition (third-person singular simple present repartitions, present participle repartitioning, simple past and past participle repartitioned)

  1. (transitive) to partition again

See all 5 meanings of repartition

Noun

repartitioning (plural repartitionings)

  1. Division into new or different partitions.
    • Concerning the frequency of repartitionings, there was great diversity. In a single province, for example, Saratov, nearly half of the 278 researched village communities in 1877 undertook a reallotment each year […]2004, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Hudis, Kevin B. Anderson, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, page 97
    • It is notable that the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which formally superseded the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, contains no provision for any future repartitioning of the island.2019 March, Marc Mulholland, “Line of Troubles”, in Literary Review

Forms of repartitioning

pluralrepartitionings

Questions about repartitioning

What does repartitioning mean?
Repartitioning means division into new or different partitions.
What is repartitioning the present participle and gerund of?
Repartitioning is the present participle and gerund of repartition.
What part of speech is repartitioning?
Repartitioning is a noun.
What is the plural of repartitioning?
The plural of repartitioning is repartitionings.

Words near repartitioning in the dictionary

  1. repartimientos
  2. reparting
  3. repartition
  4. repartitionable
  5. repartitioned
  6. repartitioning
  7. repartitionings
  8. repartitions
  9. repartner
  10. repartnered
  11. repartnering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repartitioning (page history and authors); repartition (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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