partial
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Is partial a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.Examples: "It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct."
2. (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.Examples: "not partial to an ostentatious display"; "But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."; "of"Synonyms: fond
3. (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
4. (botany) Subordinate.
5. (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.Examples: "Twelve six- letter lights form a group; these have only partial clues."; "Fourteen solutions are men of a kind. Each begins with a different letter, and their (partial) clues begin with the same letter as their solutions."
noun (English)
1. (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
2. (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
3. (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
4. (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
5. (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.Examples: "In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials."
6. (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.Examples: "Research tells us that eccentrics, heavy partials, and static exercise may require several days or weeks of recovery time."Synonyms: half rep
verb (English)
1. (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.
Definition source: Wiktionary