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glossary-type: term
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term: partition
text: |
  This term has two definitions:

  1. A partition is an RTEMS object which is used to allocate and
     deallocate fixed size blocks of memory from an dynamically specified
     area of memory.

  2. A ${cluster:/term} with a cardinality of one is a partition.
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