plural of partitive genitive

(grammar) A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the active voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the agent of the action denoted by the verb.

(grammar) A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.

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.

A summit from whose opposite sides rainwater flows into different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide; a watershed.

(idiomatic) a separation of two things or people because of a disagreement, a point of divergence, especially an important one

(mathematics) A tool used in dynamical systems theory, allowing the methods of symbolic dynamics to be applied to the study of hyperbolic systems. By using a Markov partition, the system can be made to resemble a discrete-time Markov process, with the long-term dynamical characteristics of the system represented as a Markov shift.

(political science, US) the process of steady growth of the mutual dislike between Republicans and Democrats since the 1970s

plural of partial sum