a share set aside for a specific purpose
[ Syn: allotment ]
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state
[ Syn: allotment , apportionment , apportioning , parceling , parcelling , assignation ]
(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
[ Syn: storage allocation ]