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partial
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[ adjective ] being or affecting only a part; not total
Examples "a partial description of the suspect" "partial collapse" "a partial eclipse" "a partial monopoly" "partial immunity" Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Could an employee 's garden club take_over partial care of plant grounds ? (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination , but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] showing favoritism
Synonyms Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority , Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '' , which , he said , `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government , a negative on the others , prevents all partial or local legislation '' . |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,psychology) 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
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[ noun ] (psychology) a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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