partial
- being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- 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.
- being a part; component; constituent.
- Botany. secondary or subordinate: a partial umbel.
- Bridge. part-score.
- Acoustics, Music. partial tone.
- partial to, having a liking or preference for; particularly fond of: I'm partial to chocolate cake.
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Contemporary Examples of partially
I am personally guilty of thinking that the culture war can be at least partially won on style points.
As with all criminal suspects, far too few police interrogations of people with ID are videotaped or only partially videotaped.
Sex, then, is not wholly experiential but at least partially transactional.
Have Sperm, Will Travel: The ‘Natural Inseminators’ Helping Women Avoid the Sperm BankElizabeth Picciuto
November 29, 2014
In response to hearing her story, Uber apologized for the "inefficient route" and partially refunded her fare.
In support of his assessment, he offers a number of tantalizing theories, only partially undergirded by fully explored evidence.
Historical Examples of partially
And their target is fairly protected and at least partially hidden.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
Nat endeavoured to assume a seraphic expression, and partially succeeded.
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
But Pete was still holding him fast, partially, beyond doubt, for support.
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
But she saw that Mr. Galloway seemed to think it was hers, or that it was partially hers.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
Where did you obtain the money that you applied to liquidate, or partially to liquidate, your debts?
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
partial
- relating to only a part; not general or completea partial eclipse
- biaseda partial judge
- (postpositive foll by to) having a particular liking (for)
- botany
- constituting part of a larger structurea partial umbel
- used for only part of the life cycle of a planta 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
- Also called: partial 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
Word Origin for partial
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Word Origin and History for partially
partial
early 15c., "one-sided, biased," from Old French parcial (14c., Modern French partial), from Medieval Latin partialis "divisible, solitary, partial," from Latin pars (genitive partis) "part" (see part (n.)). Sense of "not whole, incomplete" is attested from late 14c. Related: Partially (mid-15c. as "incompletely").