different between dentures vs partial

English

Noun

dentures

1. plural of denture

Usage notes

The use of the term dentures rather than the term false teeth was once considered "non-U".

See also

• dentures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• detuners, endurest, sederunt, tsundere, underset, unrested

English

Etymology

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin parti?lis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p????l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p????l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??l
• Hyphenation: par?tial

Adjective

partial (comparative more partial, superlative most partial)

1. existing as a part or portion; incomplete

2. (computer science) describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates

3. biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute

   Antonym: impartial

   • 17th century, Alexander Pope, a letter

4. (followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something

   Synonym: fond of

5. (mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential
6. (botany) subordinate

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Translations

Noun

partial (plural partials)

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.
   • 2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers (page 356)

     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.

Verb

partial (third-person singular simple present partials, present participle partialing or partialling, simple past and past participle partialed or partialled)

1. (statistics, transitive) To take the partial regression coefficient.

Further reading

• partial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• partial in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• partial at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• patrial

French

Etymology

From Middle French partial, borrowed from Late Latin parti?lis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”). Doublet of partiel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.sjal/

Adjective

partial (feminine singular partiale, masculine plural partiaux, feminine plural partiales)

1. partial, biased

Further reading

• “partial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).