Partial

Spanish Meaning

parcial

aficionado

English Meaning

  1. Of, relating to, being, or affecting only a part; not total; incomplete: The plan calls for partial deployment of missiles. The police have only a partial description of the suspect.
  2. Favoring one person or side over another or others; biased or prejudiced: a decision that was partial to the plaintiff.
  3. Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone: partial to spicy food.
  4. Mathematics Of or being operations or sequences of operations, such as differentiation and integration, when applied to only one of several variables at a time.
  5. Music See harmonic.
  6. Mathematics A partial derivative.