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語源

From 中期英語 partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɑɹʃəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɑːʃəl/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
• ハイフネーション: par‧tial

形容詞

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.

   Synonym: nonimpartial

   Antonym: impartial

   The referee is blatantly partial!

   God is not partial; he does not play favorites.

   • 17th century, Alexander Pope, a letter

     partial parent

4. (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     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.
6. (botany) Subordinate.
7. (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
   • 1982 07, The Listener:

     Twelve six- letter lights form a group; these have only partial clues.

   • 1996 February 5, “New York Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 103:

     Fourteen solutions are men of a kind. Each begins with a different letter, and their (partial) clues begin with the same letter as their solutions.

同意語

• (part): partite, fractional, demi-, semi-

派生語

関連する語

名詞

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.

6. (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.

   Synonym: half rep

   • 2021, Edward L. Wallace, Omniflex: A Unified System of Strength Training:

     Research tells us that eccentrics, heavy partials, and static exercise may require several days or weeks of recovery time.

7. (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.

   Coordinate term: fullsuit

動詞

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

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

Further reading

• “partial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “partial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “partial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

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