Partial (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness;a partial payment of a debt.
  2. biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy: a partial witness.
  3. pertaining to or affecting a part.
  4. being a part; component; constituent.
  5. secondary or subordinate: a partial umbel.
noun
  1. part-score.
  2. partial tone.
Idioms
  1. having a liking or preference for; particularly fond of: I'm partial to chocolate cake.
adjective
  1. relating to only a part; not general or complete
  2. biased
  3. having a particular liking (for)
  4. botany
    • constituting part of a larger structure
    • used for only part of the life cycle of a plant
    • (of a parasite) not exclusively parasitic
  5. designating or relating to an operation in which only one of a set of independent variables is considered at a time
noun
  1. 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
  2. a partial derivative
Partial (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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