[omginternets]

Oh duh... You were pointing out a typo in my comment.

I'm leaving my original reply below because what the hell.

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Yes, exactly.

Think of it this way: you don't actually have any control over partitioning, therefore partitions are a given. So CAP is expressed as such: given a partition, choose between consistency and availability.

EDIT: I personally find PACELC [0] less confusing, and more nuanced than CAP, but they basically say the same thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem