partial

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

par·tial (pärʹshəl)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.
2. Mathematics. A partial derivative. [Middle English parcial, from Old French, from Late Latin partiālis, from Latin pars, part-, part. See part.] parʹtial·ness n.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fond(p), partial(p), overtone, partial tone, partial derivative