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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
partial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a partial eclipse (=one in which the Sun or Moon is not completely hidden)
▪ A partial eclipse of the Sun will occur on August 28th.
partial compensation (=partly covering your loss, damage etc)
▪ The woman received partial compensation of £5,000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
▪ It's only partial, fortunately, but that may change.
▪ Since the obstruction may sometimes be only partial and not complete, then this description would be somewhat altered.
▪ The failure may be only partial.
▪ But his relatedness was only partial.
▪ To obtain such information is costly and there are people or groups with an incentive to provide only partial or distorted information.
▪ The comparison was only partial, since we considered only a selection of possible stylistic variants.
very
▪ The centrepiece of the programme - Denazification - was, however, only a very partial success.
▪ The problem is that, as with any morality tale, this is a very partial truth.
▪ A child's view of the older generation is clearly very partial.
▪ The inclusion of the subordinate classes in the political sphere is very partial.
▪ Yet this is of course only a very partial view of what these sociologists were attempting.
▪ Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view.
■ NOUN
answer
▪ Let me give you a partial answer for the moment.
▪ Chronology could deliver only a partial answer.
▪ But partial answers can be defended.
▪ We have explored a number of approaches which each give a partial answer to that question.
▪ There are, however, some general questions to which at least a partial answer can be given.
▪ I do not think we can answer that question adequately yet, though partial answers can be proffered.
▪ Scoring the soil film thereby allowing cleaning agent to penetrate to the substance and work from underneath is a partial answer.
▪ A partial answer can be found in the biblical tale of Joseph.
ban
▪ These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
birth
▪ When President Clinton vetoes partial birth abortion, then Sen.
▪ Clinton on April 10 vetoed a bill that would have banned so-called partial birth abortions.
closure
▪ In addition there are two cross-overs in mid-Channel to allow partial closure of the tunnel for maintenance purposes.
▪ Most corporate headquarters and bank branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were open Tuesday after partial closures yesterday.
equilibrium
▪ This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms.
▪ Partial Equilibrium Analysis Let us first return to the partial equilibrium model of section 5.
▪ Originally presented in terms of partial equilibrium analysis, it has been extended in two principal directions.
▪ In this case the home country exports good 1, just as in the partial equilibrium model discussed in the previous section.
▪ In other words, we may continue with a partial equilibrium framework.
▪ From the standpoint of the partial equilibrium analysis of the employment impact, the role of foreign trade emerged as especially important.
▪ The implications for less partial equilibrium behaviour are less clear.
▪ As the partial equilibrium analysis suggested, a procompetitive effect, with monopolistic industries expanding, is expected from trade.
explanation
▪ But corruption is only a partial explanation of some of the key strategic decisions taken by the governments.
▪ But all of them are at best partial explanations.
▪ A partial explanation for this may again be found in the 1925 precedent.
▪ Is not a partial explanation the effectiveness of government?
▪ However, this is only a partial explanation.
government
▪ Scores of economic reports have been delayed in recent weeks because of the partial government shutdown.
▪ Gramm suggested recently that the partial government shutdown was evidence that furloughed federal workers were unnecessary.
▪ That could lead to a third partial government shutdown, if a compromise on spending limits can not be reached.
▪ Failure to reach compromises on spending in 1995 and 1996 triggered two partial government shutdowns.
▪ The House voted against a measure, approved by the Senate, to end the 19-day partial government shutdown.
▪ The partial government shutdown derived from the budget stalemate will reach three weeks this Friday.
▪ Newt Gingrich broke a vital trust when he forced the partial government shutdown for three weeks over Christmas of 1995.
▪ Breakdowns in negotiations led to two partial government shutdowns.
information
▪ Another group received partial information about the events described in the passage.
▪ Larger lexicons also result in more than 100 words matching the partial information more often.
list
▪ And those represent merely a partial list.
loss
▪ A literal translation is given of the Arabic themes to highlight the partial loss of orientation through discontinuity of theme.
▪ His partial loss had lessened his enjoyment of music, which was one of his greatest pleasures.
offer
▪ A partial offer document is, therefore, a more time-consuming document to prepare.
▪ A partial offer is an offer made to all shareholders to buy a proportion of their shares.
▪ A comparison of partial offers and tender offers is contained in para 4.8 below.
pressure
▪ This is known as Dalton's law of partial pressures.
▪ The partial pressure of a component gas can be calculated if the masses of the component gases in a container are known.
▪ Arterial partial pressure of oxygen was 10.8 kPa.
▪ State Dalton's law of partial pressures and show how it may be derived from the ideal gas equation.
▪ Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that postoperative pain decreases subcutaneous oxygen partial pressure.
▪ When temperature is increased, the partial pressures of both components and the total vapour pressure of the mixture increase.
response
▪ Procrastination or partial responses are powerful weapons.
seizure
▪ The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.
▪ The control of the partial seizures was significantly better with carbamazepine than with phenobarbital, phenytoin, or primidone.
▪ The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
▪ Carbamazepine is the drug of first choice in partial seizures and partial seizures secondarily generalized.
▪ Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.
▪ About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.
▪ A brief period of loss of contact as in complex partial seizures. 5.
shutdown
▪ The 21-day partial shutdown of government that ended last week delayed jobless claims and payroll reports.
▪ The budget clash resulted in a partial shutdown at the passport agency.
solution
▪ One partial solution to the problem is to exploit polarisation.
▪ This is where foreigners come into the cafeteria and provide a partial solution.
▪ Fundholding only a partial solution Early experience with the fundholding scheme has shown that general practitioners can be effective purchasers of care.
▪ As a partial solution, Combined Fleet decided to resort to a special stratagem that had already worked successfully once before.
▪ Both systems were faced with a combinatorial explosion of partial solutions since the input data matched very many rules or partial descriptions.
▪ Backwards Pruning One way to define a sub-tree is to reduce the depth to a partial solution.
▪ They are, however, only a partial solution to the problem.
▪ The more constrained the grammar the greater the reduction in the number of incorrect partial solutions.
success
▪ The centrepiece of the programme - Denazification - was, however, only a very partial success.
▪ Anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine and phenytoin have been tried with partial success.
▪ Whatever may have prompted Caesar to carry out his expeditions, their partial success was accepted in Rome as a definite conquest.
▪ The best Clinton can hope for is partial success.
▪ The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success.
▪ Students received a certificate only if they successfully completed the whole course: partial success was not formally certificated.
▪ On this test, Thatcherism has achieved a partial success.
theory
▪ On the other hand, the other partial theories depend on quantum mechanics in an essential way.
view
▪ The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality.
▪ One is that each theory represents only a partial view of the 183 whole.
▪ However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
▪ All but a few seats have a partial view.
▪ But we have had two partial views.
▪ This leads him to offer a somewhat partial view of Foucault's important work.
▪ Yet this is of course only a very partial view of what these sociologists were attempting.
▪ Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view.
water
▪ Once the tank is up and running water quality should be maintained by regular partial water changes of 20-30% each week.
▪ Once a week a partial water change is carried out - with care not to remove any fry.
▪ Syphon out any excess as a partial water change, before restarting the filter.
▪ It died suddenly in the morning after a careful partial water change.
▪ Salt does not break down or decompose in the pond - it is diluted by partial water changes.
▪ From this point, partial water changes.
▪ A quick partial water change will often effect an improvement in a matter of hours.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ partial disability
▪ a partial solution to the problem
▪ At best, the mission was a partial success.
▪ From where I was standing, I had a partial view of the house.
▪ This is only a partial solution to the problem.
▪ Wade received only partial compensation for her injuries.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After its partial recovery in the middle 1920s, the Edinburgh printing trade was hit by the depression.
▪ But what is constituted by consciousness is the at least partial discernment of limitation.
▪ Just imagine the hippocampus playing back a partial spatiotemporal pattern to the cortex-maybe a fragment of something from the previous week.
▪ Let me give you a partial answer for the moment.
▪ The ruling entitled objectors to a partial refund, based on the percentage of the overall fee that supported such activities.
▪ The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality.
▪ Their own spontaneously appointed stewards kept the demonstration orderly and on arrival at their destination they won a partial victory.
▪ This low pressure made a partial vacuum above the liquid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
partial

partial \par"tial\ (p[aum]r"shal), a. [F., fr. LL. partials, fr. L. pars, gen. partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F. partiel. See Part, n.]

  1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon. ``Partial dissolutions of the earth.''
    --T. Burnet.

  2. Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; biased; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.

    Ye have been partial in the law.
    --Mal. ii. 9.

  3. Having a predilection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond. ``A partial parent.''
    --Pope.

    Not partial to an ostentatious display.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  4. (Bot.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.

    Partial differentials, Partial differential coefficients, Partial differentiation, etc. (of a function of two or more variables), the differentials, differential coefficients, differentiation etc., of the function, upon the hypothesis that some of the variables are for the time constant.

    Partial fractions (Alg.), fractions whose sum equals a given fraction.

    Partial tones (Music), the simple tones which in combination form an ordinary tone; the overtones, or harmonics, which, blending with a fundamental tone, cause its special quality of sound, or timbre, or tone color. See, also, Tone.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
partial

early 15c., "one-sided, biased," from Old French parcial (14c., Modern French partial), from Medieval Latin partialis "divisible, solitary, partial," from Latin pars (genitive partis) "part" (see part (n.)). Sense of "not whole, incomplete" is attested from late 14c. Related: Partially (mid-15c. as "incompletely").

Wiktionary
partial

a. 1 Existing as a part or portion; incomplete. 2 (context computer science English) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates. 3 biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute. 4 Having a predilection for something. n. 1 (context mathematics English) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables. 2 (context music English) An overtone or harmonic. 3 (context dentistry English) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth 4 (context forensics English) An incomplete fingerprint

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WordNet
partial

  1. adj. being or affecting only a part; not total; "a partial description of the suspect"; "partial collapse"; "a partial eclipse"; "a partial monopoly"; "partial immunity"

  2. showing favoritism [syn: unfair] [ant: impartial]

  3. (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for; "fond of chocolate"; "partial to horror movies" [syn: fond(p), partial(p)]

partial

  1. n. 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 [syn: partial derivative]

  2. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency [syn: overtone, partial tone]

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Wikipedia
Partial

Partial may refer to:

Mathematics
  • Partial derivative
    • ∂, the partial derivative symbol, often read as "partial"
  • Partial differential equation
  • Partial function
  • Partially ordered set
Other
  • Partial agonist, in pharmacology
  • Partial algorithm, in computer science
  • Partial charge, in chemistry
  • Partial index, in database management
  • Part score, in contract bridge
  • Partial seizure, epilepsy
  • Partial wave, in acoustics and music
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Usage examples of "partial".

They will tell you where on Earth to stand, when you have to be there, and whether it will be a partial eclipse, a total eclipse, or an annular eclipse.

The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.

Yet the fellow-citizens of Procopius were satisfied, by some short and partial experience, that the infection could not be gained by the closest conversation: and this persuasion might support the assiduity of friends or physicians in the care of the sick, whom inhuman prudence would have condemned to solitude and despair.

Prairie grabbed a kettle of institutional tomato soup, carried it on in, and for the next couple of hours she also schlepped racks of newly washed cups and dishes in and bused dirty dishes out, cleaned off tabletops, poured coffee, going from one set of chores to another as they arose, sensing partial vacuums and flowing there to fill them, unable to help noticing that people were taking seconds on the Spinach Casserole, and the baloney too.

Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

As a matter of fact the ancient doctrine of the Divine Essences was far the sounder and more instructed, and must be accepted by all not caught in the delusions that beset humanity: it is easy also to identify what has been conveyed in these later times from the ancients with incongruous novelties--how for example, where they must set up a contradictory doctrine, they introduce a medley of generation and destruction, how they cavil at the Universe, how they make the Soul blameable for the association with body, how they revile the Administrator of this All, how they ascribe to the Creator, identified with the Soul, the character and experiences appropriate to partial be beings.

Some bronchitic invalid had gouged a huge blob from his lungs and, weakened by his spasm of coughing, had managed only enough force to give it a partial revolution after its impact with the floor.

A Browning in journalese, his aim was to see the bright side of everything, to expound partial evil as universal good.

He had a canvas bag from Frankfurt, bought with the partial pay Florence Horter had arranged for him at the 97th General.

My first pages relate the effect of a certain literary experience upon myself,--a series of partial metempsychoses of which I have been the subject.

Counteracting misreporting is impossible, as we saw with the coverage of the forensic reports, with all the leaked information from uncorroborated sources, partial truths and sensationalism.

There was a strong tendency last century to revive the notion, and even to our modern ideas, with our Copernican astronomy, there remains at least the possibility of drawing fantastical analogies between the proportionate distances of the planets and the proportionate vibration numbers of the partial tones in a musically vibrating string or pipe.

The cords overlaid the young man in partial blast armor, bleeding heavily from a cut across his forehead.

Under the partial shelter of an overtowering tree, he found a skylight set in a metal frame.

Theodosius, we are reduced to illustrate the partial narrative of Zosimus, by the obscure hints of fragments and chronicles, by the figurative style of poetry or panegyric, and by the precarious assistance of the ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.