Usually means: Incomplete, not whole or total.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word partial:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. partial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. partial: Merriam-Webster
  3. partial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. partial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. partial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. partial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Partial, partial: Wordnik
  8. partial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. partial: Wiktionary
  10. partial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. partial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. partial: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Partial, partial: Dictionary.com
  14. partial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. partial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Partial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Partial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. partial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. partial: Rhymezone
  20. partial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. partial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. partial: FreeDictionary.org
  23. partial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. partial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. partial: Law.com Dictionary
  3. partial: Legal dictionary
  4. Partial: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. partial: Medical dictionary
  3. Oral Health Definitions for Non-Dentists (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partial: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. partial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. partial: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See partialing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  existing as a part or portion; incomplete
adjective:  (computer science) describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates
adjective:  biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute
adjective:  (followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something
adjective:  (mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential
adjective:  (botany) subordinate
adjective:  (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
noun:  (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
noun:  (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
noun:  (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
noun:  (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
noun:  (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
noun:  (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
noun:  (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
verb:  (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

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