partial

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”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːʃəl/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
• Hyphenation: par‧tial

partial (comparative more partial, superlative most partial)

1. existing as a part or portion; incomplete

   So far, I have only pieced together a partial account of the incident.

2. (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.

3. biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute

   Antonym: impartial

   The referee is blatantly partial!

   • Alexander Pope

     a partial parent

4. (followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something
   • Sir Walter Scott

     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

5. (mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential

partial (plural partials)

1. (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
2. (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
3. (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
4. (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
5. (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.

partial (third-person singular simple present partials, present participle partialing or partialling, simple past and past participle partialed or partialled)

1. (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

• partial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• partial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• partial at OneLook Dictionary Search

• patrial

Doublet of partiel.

partial (feminine singular partiale, masculine plural partiaux, feminine plural partiales)

1. partial, biased

• “partial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).