partitions
n. countablen. walls or screens that divide a large room into smaller areas. You often see them in offices to give people their own private space.
n. structures or barriers that divide a space into distinct parts or sections. Often refers to non-load-bearing walls in interior architecture or logical divisions on a computer storage device.
The office uses glass partitions to create separate meeting rooms.
We installed movable partitions in the community center to allow multiple groups to use the hall at once.
The architect specified soundproof partitions for the recording studio to ensure that no acoustic bleed occurred between the control room and the live performance area.
Often used in the plural when referring to the multiple dividers in an office or the segments of a hard drive.