partial
- 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
A medical procedure late in pregnancy where the unborn baby is partly delivered and then removed
An event when one object in the sky blocks only part of another, leaving some still visible
- Specialized
An equation that shows how a value changes when two or more things change
- Jargon
A decision that says a person is guilty of some crimes but not others in the same trial
- Specialized
How fast a function with two or more variables changes when one variable changes and others stay the same
- Specialized
How two things are related after removing the effect of a third thing
- Jargon
A break of a contract that does not end it but lets the harmed person ask for money
- Specialized
In a gas mixture, total pressure equals the sum of pressures each gas would make alone
- Specialized
Total pressure of a gas mixture equals sum of pressures each gas would have alone under the same conditions
- Specialized
A method to measure the relationship between two ranked variables while keeping other variables 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.