partial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːʃəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
Forms: form: more partial
form: most partial
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”).
Senses: examples: text: So far, I have only pieced together a partial account of the incident.
glosses: Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
examples: text: It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
examples: text: The referee is blatantly partial!
text: God is not partial; he does not play favorites.
text: 17th century, Alexander Pope, a letter
partial parent
synonyms: nonimpartial
antonyms: impartial
glosses: Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
examples: text: not partial to an ostentatious display
ref: 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:
text: But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
ref: 1817, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice, page 32:
text: of
synonyms: fond
glosses: Having a predilection for something.
raw_tags: followed by the preposition to
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Subordinate.
examples: text: Twelve six- letter lights form a group; these have only partial clues.
ref: 1982 07, The Listener:
text: 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.
ref: 1996 February 5, “New York Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 103:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
raw_tags: of a clue
Synonyms: sense: part
word: partite
sense: part
word: fractional
sense: part
word: demi-
sense: part
word: semi-
Derived terms: activated partial thromboplastin time
impartial
impartiality
impartially
nonpartial
over-partial
overpartial
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
partialism
partialist
partiality
partialize
partially
partialness
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
semipartial
subpartial
unpartial
Related terms: part
partly