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Partial   /pˈɑrʃəl/   Listen
Partial

adjective
1.
Being or affecting only a part; not total.  "Partial collapse" , "A partial eclipse" , "A partial monopoly" , "Partial immunity"
2.
Showing favoritism.
3.
(followed by 'of' or 'to') having a strong preference or liking for.  Synonym: fond.  "Partial to horror movies"
noun
1.
The derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant.  Synonym: partial derivative.
2.
A harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency.  Synonyms: overtone, partial tone.



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"Partial" Quotes from Famous Books



... sense of completeness, and attainment, and security, and peace, which mere ethics, or adjustment to the separate fragmentary objects which constitute our environment, can never give. The moral life is from its very nature partial, fragmentary, and finite. The religious life by penitence and faith and hope and love, rises above the finite with its limitations, and the temporal with its sins and failings, and lays hold on the infinite ideal and the eternal goodness, with ...
— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde
... "Whereas partial strikes can only procure for the workers momentary and illusory relief, and whereas, by their very nature, wages will always be limited to the strictly necessary means of subsistence in order to keep the ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter
... definite understanding with the Entente Allies respecting certain terms. This is indeed a wrong conception of things. We declare war because we want to fight for humanity, international law and against a national enemy. It is not because we are partial towards the Entente or against Germany or Austria. International relations are not commercial connexions. Why then should we talk about exchange of privileges and rights? As to the revision of Customs tariff, it has been our aspiration for ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale
... of the interpretation to the fact. It is up to this time largely believed that the Bible teaches the doctrine of a general deluge, yet Hugh Miller could advocate, with all the elegance of his superb intellect, and all the power of his unanswerable science, the opposite doctrine of a partial or limited deluge, without being outlawed for heresy in the Free Church of Scotland. It is now held almost universally that the doctrine of the unity of the race is essential to Christianity; and we, for ourselves, cannot see that it is ...
— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various
... want of adequate nervous force: the doctors give it names, but don't seem to be able to cure or relieve it; he is strong, physically and mentally, but the least over-exertion or over-strain knocks him up; it is as if virtue went out of him; though a partial niece may say that he has a plentiful stock ...
— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson


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