# partial
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɑːʃəl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
* Hyphenation: par‧tial

### Adjective

partial (comparative more partial, superlative most partial)
* existing as a part or portion; incomplete
    So far, I have only pieced together a partial account of the incident.
* (computer science) describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates
    It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.
* biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute
    Synonym: nonimpartial
    Antonym: impartial
    The referee is blatantly partial!
    God is not partial; he does not play favorites.
** 17th century, Alexander Pope, a letter
    partial parent
* (followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something
** 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:not partial to an ostentatious display
** 1817, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice, page 32:But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
    Synonym: fond of
* (mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential
* (botany) subordinate
* (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
** 1982 07, The Listener:Twelve six- letter lights form a group; these have only partial clues.
** 1996 February 5, “New York Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 103:Fourteen solutions are men of a kind. Each begins with a different letter, and their (partial) clues begin with the same letter as their solutions.

#### Synonyms

* (part): partite, fractional, demi-, semi-

#### Derived terms

* activated partial thromboplastin time
* impartial
* impartiality
* impartially
* over-partial
* partial application
* partial autocorrelation
* partial-birth abortion
* partial calque
* partial charge
* partial cloverleaf interchange
* partial dependency
* partial differential equation
* partial discharge
* partial discharge extinction voltage
* partial discharge inception voltage
* partial equilibrium
* partial evaluation
* partial false friend
* partial fraction
* partial function
* partial function application
* partial indulgence
* partiality
* partially
* partial object
* partial order
* partial ordering relation
* partial out
* partial pin
* partial pressure
* partial shaper
* partial sum
* partial thromboplastin time
* partial to
* partial vacuum
* partial veil

#### Related terms

* part
* partly

#### Translations

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### Noun

partial (plural partials)
* (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
* (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
* (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
* (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
* (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
** 2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers, page 356:In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials.
* (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
    Synonym: half rep
** 2021, Edward L. Wallace, Omniflex: A Unified System of Strength Training:Research tells us that eccentrics, heavy partials, and static exercise may require several days or weeks of recovery time.
* (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
    Coordinate term: fullsuit

### Verb

partial (third-person singular simple present partials, present participle partialing or partialling, simple past and past participle partialed or partialled)
* (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

### Further reading

* “partial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “partial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “partial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* patrial

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French partial, borrowed from Late Latin partiālis (“relating to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”). Doublet of partiel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paʁ.sjal/

### Adjective

partial (feminine partiale, masculine plural partiaux, feminine plural partiales)
* partial, biased

### Further reading

* “partial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.