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partial
[ pahr-shuhl ]
adjective
- being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: a partial payment of a debt.
partial blindness;
a partial payment of a debt.
Synonyms: limited, imperfect, unfinished
Antonyms: complete
- biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy:
a partial witness.
- pertaining to or affecting a part.
Antonyms: complete
- being a part; component; constituent.
- Botany. secondary or subordinate:
a partial umbel.
noun
- Bridge. part-score.
- Acoustics, Music. partial tone.
partial
/ ˈpɑːʃəl /
adjective
- relating to only a part; not general or complete
a partial eclipse
- biased
a partial judge
- postpositivefoll byto having a particular liking (for)
- botany
- constituting part of a larger structure
a partial umbel
- used for only part of the life cycle of a plant
a partial habitat
- (of a parasite) not exclusively parasitic
- maths designating or relating to an operation in which only one of a set of independent variables is considered at a time
noun
- Also calledpartial tone music acoustics any of the component tones of a single musical sound, including both those that belong to the harmonic series of the sound and those that do not
- maths a partial derivative
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Derived Forms
- ˈpartialness, noun
- ˈpartially, adverb
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Other Words From
- par·tial·ly adverb
- par·tial·ness noun
- non·par·tial adjective
- o·ver·par·tial adjective
- o·ver·par·tial·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of partial1
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Idioms and Phrases
- partial to, having a liking or preference for; particularly fond of:
I'm partial to chocolate cake.
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Example Sentences
Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
Or perhaps Understanding, Partial Ignorance, and Total Ignorance.
A better taxonomy would break us up by words like Acceptance, Partial Denial, and Total Denial.
Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”
He majored in mathematical physics, studying mind-bending theories of quantum mechanics and partial differential equations.
Granular and fatty casts, therefore, always indicate partial or complete disintegration of the renal epithelium.
The 'whole' of him that now dealt with Lettice was far above all minor and partial means of knowing.
We merely tell thus much to account for her position and her partial refinement—both of which conditions she shared with Susan.
How can the utmost success be expected to follow a partial use of the means of Divine grace?
The natives are partial to the plant, and devotedly attached to smoking.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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