partitioning
- present participle of partition.
Example Sentences
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Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026
The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024
In an agreement partitioning the Black Sea Fleet after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia agreed to pay Ukraine to lease a naval base in Sevastopol.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Data collected in Yellowstone before, during, and after wolf reintroduction provides a window into how the species have found a way to warily coexist by partitioning the landscape.
From National Geographic • Aug. 25, 2023
Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
