different between harmonic vs partial

English

Alternative forms

• harmonick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (harmonikós), from ??????? (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??(?)?m?n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

harmonic (comparative more harmonic, superlative most harmonic)

1. pertaining to harmony
2. pleasant to hear; harmonious; melodious
3. (mathematics) used to characterize various mathematical entities or relationships supposed to bear some resemblance to musical consonance

4. recurring periodically
5. (phonology) Exhibiting or applying constraints on what vowels (e.g. front/back vowels only) may be found near each other and sometimes in the entire word.
6. (Australianist linguistics) Of or relating to a generation an even number of generations distant from a particular person.
   • 1966, Kenneth Hale, Kinship Reflections in Syntax: Some Australian languages

     A person is harmonic with respect to members of his own generation and with respect to members of all even-numbered generations counting away from his own (e.g., his grandparents' generation, his grandchildren's generation, etc.).

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

harmonic (plural harmonics)

1. (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
2. (music) The place where, on a bowed string instrument, a note in the harmonic series of a particular string can be played without the fundamental present.
3. (mathematics) One of a class of functions that enter into the development of the potential of a nearly spherical mass due to its attraction.
4. (CB radio slang) One's child.
   • 1967, CQ: the Radio Amateur's Journal (volume 23, issues 7-12, page 140)

     Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.

   • 1988, Amateur Radio (volume 44, issues 1-6, page 38)

     The harmonics (kids, I mean) sometimes failed to recognize me on the rare occasions when I emerged from the shack […]

Translations

Anagrams

• choirman, chromian, omniarch, rahmonic

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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Related terms

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).