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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: , ,Antonyms:biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy.
a partial witness.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms: ,pertaining to or affecting a part.
Antonyms:being a part; component; constituent.
Botany.Ìýsecondary or subordinate.
a partial umbel.
noun
Bridge.Ìýpart-score.
Acoustics, Music.Ìýpartial tone.
partial
/ ˈ±èÉ‘Ëʃə±ô /
adjective
relating to only a part; not general or complete
a partial eclipse
biased
a partial judge
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 called: partial tone.Ìýmusic 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
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- partially adverb
- partialness noun
- nonpartial adjective
- overpartial adjective
- overpartialness noun
- ˈ±è²¹°ù³Ù¾±²¹±ô²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
- ˈ±è²¹°ù³Ù¾±²¹±ô±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of partial1
Idioms and Phrases
partial to, having a liking or preference for; particularly fond of.
I'm partial to chocolate cake.
Example Sentences
"They were questioned as witnesses and later their identities were fully confirmed via social networks, mobile phones, and partial radio intercepts that preceded the event. The entire unit in that sector was tracked."
The two partial skeletons that the team examined in this study were first discovered in Mongolia back in the early 1970s.
For days, parents and community members only had partial information about the boy’s whereabouts.
The partial verdict comes after five days of deliberations, with the foreperson of the jury reporting escalating tensions among the jurors.
Initially, the results were encouraging, with Wilson losing much of his excess weight and making a partial recovery from his drug dependence.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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