partial

adjective

1. Of or relating to a part rather than the whole not general or total

   "a partial solution"

2. Inclined to favor one party} more than the other {sx

   "it is inconsistent with justice to be partial"

3. Markedly fond of someone or something

noun

1. Overtone

noun

1. Dilation and extraction

   "… upholding a ban on so-called partial-birth abortion, a nonmedical term devised by the powerful antichoice lobby to attack a particular late-term abortion procedure."

noun

1. A usually removable artificial replacement of one or more teeth

noun

1. The derivative of a function of several variables with respect to one of them and with the remaining variables treated as constants

noun

1. A differential equation containing at least one partial derivative

noun

1. The process of finding a partial derivative

noun

1. One of the simpler fractions into the sum of which the quotient of two polynomials may be decomposed

noun

1. The pressure exerted by a (specified) component in a mixture of gases

noun

1. A product obtained by multiplying a multiplicand by one digit of a multiplier having more than one digit