partial
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈpɑːrʃəl/
- Specialized
- So it'll be FX that's the partial with respect to X FY.
Examples
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The scree and minimum average partials criteria suggested that four factors be retained, but parallel analysis recommended only three factors.
Academic text (2006) -
It's called the NTH partial sum.
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double dot and that has to equal partial of L with respect to R.
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And this will give you partial F partial Tau times.
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I am using the same partials you are.
Blog text (32) -
I've made I've computed partial P, partial X which.
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This is the only story that seemed relatively complete among several dozen partials in the PowerBook George's former wife, Mary, sent me.
Fiction book (1997) -
In calculus, the partial of a function describes how it changes with respect to one variable while the others remain constant.
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To find the rate of change, we calculated the partial of the equation based on the variables provided.
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The engineer used the partial to analyze the effects of temperature on pressure when other factors were controlled.
Synonyms
How fast a function with two or more variables changes when one variable changes and others stay the same
Antonyms
Compounds
11
9.9
A medical procedure late in pregnancy where the unborn baby is partly delivered and then removed
- Specialized
1
9.6
An equation that shows how a value changes when two or more things change
1
5.9
An event when one object in the sky blocks only part of another, leaving some still visible
- Jargon
1
8.7
A decision that says a person is guilty of some crimes but not others in the same trial
- Specialized
Total pressure of a gas mixture equals sum of pressures each gas would have alone under the same conditions
- Specialized
In a gas mixture, total pressure equals the sum of pressures each gas would make alone
- Specialized
A method to measure the relationship between two ranked variables while keeping other variables the same
- Jargon
A break of a contract that does not end it but lets the harmed person ask for money
- Specialized
How two things are related after removing the effect of a third thing
- Specialized
How fast a function with two or more variables changes when one variable changes and others stay the same
- Specialized
A higher sound made when the main note vibrates a whole number of times
- Specialized
A thin skin that covers a young mushroom and breaks to leave a ring on the stem
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Partial in math comes from the same root as the English word part, meaning 'part'. So a partial is a derivative that looks at one 'part', one variable, of a function with more than one variable while the other variables stay the same.