adj.

1. Of, relating to, being, or affecting only a part; not total; incomplete: The plan calls for partial deployment of missiles. The police have only a partial description of the suspect.
2. Favoring one person or side over another or others; biased or prejudiced: a decision that was partial to the plaintiff.
3. Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone: partial to spicy food.
4. Mathematics. Of or being operations or sequences of operations, such as differentiation and integration, when applied to only one of several variables at a time.

n.

1. Music. See harmonic (sense 1).
2. Mathematics. A partial derivative.

[Middle English parcial, from Old French, from Late Latin partiālis, from Latin pars, part-, part. See part.]

partialness par'tial·ness n.

adjective

1. Relating to or affecting only a part; not total: fractional, fragmentary, part. See part/whole.
2. Disposed to favor one over another: favorable, preferential. See fair/unfair.
3. Exhibiting bias: biased, one-sided, partisan, prejudiced, prejudicial, prepossessed, tendentious. See like/dislike, straight/bent.

adj

Definition: biased, prejudiced
Antonyms: fair, just, impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced

adj

Definition: incomplete
Antonyms: complete, entire, total, whole

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A component vibration at a particular frequency in a compound tone. It need not be harmonic. Fundamentals or overtones are sometimes described as partials but the term is generally used in referring to components in the tone of such a body as a bell. See Harmonics.

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Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a part of something.

• p. budget — see partial budget.
• p. pressure — the pressure exerted by a specific gas in a mixture of gases. Because the amount of the gas dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas on the fluid the concentration of a gas in a fluid is expressed as its partial pressure.
• p. thromboplastin time (PTT) — see activated partial thromboplastin time.

Either the fundamental or an overtone in the harmonic series.

IN BRIEF: Of or in only a piece; not complete or total. Also: favorably disposed.

We may be partial, but Fate is not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882), American transcendentalist philosopher.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - partiel, partisk
n. - deltone

idioms:

• be partial to    have en svaghed for
• partial eclipse    delvis formørkelse
• partial verdict    situation, hvor anklagede kun findes skyldig i nogle af anklagepunkterne

Nederlands (Dutch)
gedeeltelijk, vooringenomen, onderdeel van muzikale toon

Français (French)
adj. - partiel, partial, (avoir) un faible pour
n. - (Mus) harmonique, dérivatif partiel

idioms:

• be partial to    avoir un faible pour
• partial eclipse    éclipse partielle
• partial verdict    verdict partiel

Deutsch (German)
adj. - partiell, teilweise, parteiisch
n. - (Mus.) Teilton

idioms:

• be partial to    eine Schwäche für etwas haben
• partial eclipse    Teileklipse
• partial verdict    Schuldigsprechung für einen Teil der Anschuldigungen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μερικός, επί μέρους, μεροληπτικός, προκατειλημμένος
n. - μερικός τόνος

idioms:

• be partial to    έχω αδυναμία σε
• partial eclipse    μερική έκλειψη
• partial verdict    ετυμηγορία μερικής ενοχής

Italiano (Italian)
parziale, prevenuto

idioms:

• be partial to    avere una predilezione per, avere un debole per
• partial eclipse    eclissi parziale
• partial verdict    verdetto parziale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - parcial, incompleto, injusto, faccioso
n. - parcial

idioms:

• be partial to    ter preferência para com
• partial eclipse    eclipse parcial
• partial verdict    veredicto parcial

Русский (Russian)
частичный, пристрастный

idioms:

• be partial to    быть неравнодушным к
• partial eclipse    неполное затмение
• partial verdict    несправедливый приговор, часть выговора

Español (Spanish)
adj. - parcial, aficionado
n. - parcial, aficionado

idioms:

• be partial to    ser aficionado a algo, tener gusto por algo
• partial eclipse    eclipse parcial
• partial verdict    sentencia parcial

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - partiell, ofullständig, partisk
n. - partiell

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
部分的, 偏爱的, 偏袒的, 泛音

idioms:

• be partial to    偏爱于..., 偏袒于...
• partial eclipse    偏蚀
• partial verdict    部分有罪裁决

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 部分的, 偏愛的, 偏袒的
n. - 泛音

idioms:

• be partial to    偏愛於..., 偏袒於...
• partial eclipse    偏蝕
• partial verdict    部分有罪裁決

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 부분적인, 불공평한, 특히 좋아하는
n. - 부분음

idioms:

• be partial to    ~을 몹시 좋아하다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 部分の, 部分的な, 不完全な, 不公平な, えこひいきする, 特に好きで

idioms:

• be partial to    偏愛する
• partial eclipse    部分食
• partial verdict    一部評決

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) جزئي, تحيزي (الاسم) مولع ولعا شديدا ب, متحيز, محاب, مغرض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חלקי, משוחד, בעל דיעה מוקדמת, נושא פנים, אוהב, מחבב, נוטה ל-‬
n. - ‮כל אחד ממרכיבי צליל מוסיקלי‬

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