partition
Let with . A partition of an interval is a set of nonempty subintervals for some positive integer . That is, . Note that is the number of subintervals in the partition.
Subinterval partitions are useful for defining Riemann integrals.
Note that subinterval partition is a specific case of a partition (http://planetmath.org/Partition) of a set since the subintervals are defined so that they are pairwise disjoint.