partial (ˈpɑːʃəl
)
Definitions
adjective
- relating to only a part; not general or complete ⇒
a partial eclipse
- biased ⇒
a partial judge
- (postpositive) foll by to 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
- constituting part of a larger structure ⇒
- mathematics 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 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 - mathematics a partial derivative
Alternative Forms
ˈpartially adverb ˈpartialness nounWord Origin
C15: from Old French parcial, from Late Latin partiālis incomplete, from Latin parspartTranslations
- British English:
partial
You use partial to refer to something that is true or exists to some extent, but is not complete or total.The event was only a partial success.ˈpɑːʃəl ADJECTIVE The event was only a partial success.
- Spanish:
parcial
adj
- French:
partiel
adj
- German:
teilweise
adj
- Chinese: 部分的 adj
- Arabic: جُزْئِيٌ adj
- Portuguese: parcial adj
- Russian: частичный adj частичная
- Croatian: djelomičan adj djelomična
- Czech: částečný adj
- Danish: delvis adj
- Dutch: gedeeltelijk adj
- Finnish: osittainen adj
- Greek: μερικός adj μερική
- Italian: parziale adj
- Japanese: 部分的な no_posp
- Korean: 부분적인 adj
- Norwegian: delvis adj
- Polish: częściowy adj częściowa
- Brazilian Portuguese: parcial adj
- European Spanish:
parcial
adj
- Swedish: partiell adj partiellt
- Thai: ซึ่งเป็นบางส่วน adj
- Turkish: kısmi adj
- Vietnamese: một phần adj
Usage examples
Arthur Young was partial , he was a pundit, a boffin, a connoisseur.
, BEHINDLINGS (2002)But you won't want to find yourself watching a partial eclipse from a traffic jam.
New Scientist (1999)"Some municipalities, for example, have chosen solely to protect their own municipal employees... Some have got partial bans.
Globe and Mail (2003)Evans and Charlie Tully were key figures in what was a substantial, but only partial , revival.
Glasgow Herald (2001)Carden's covering letter and Jenkinson's comments survive, however -- enough to make a partial reconstruction.
, FENIAN FIRE: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria (2002)