If you describe something as partial, you're usually saying it's just part of the whole, or incomplete. Say someone asks how you started your band and you say, "I bought a guitar." That would be a partial answer, at best.
Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire;
Noun
a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
Noun
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
Adjective S.
being or affecting only a part; not total; "a partial description of the suspect"; "partial collapse"; "a partial eclipse"; "a partial monopoly"; "partial immunity"
Adjective
showing favoritism
n.
Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general
or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.
n.
Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a
question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge
should not be partial.
n.
Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably;
foolishly fond.
n.
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
Ye have been partial in the law.3.
Not partial to an ostentatious display.4.
Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire;
Usage Examples
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
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Other Usage ExamplesDon't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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