partial breach | a breach that does not destroy the value of the contract but can give rise to a claim for damages |
incomplete abortion partial abortion | termination of pregnancy without expulsion of all of the products of conception |
tonsillectomy | surgical removal of the palatine tonsils, commonly performed along with adenoidectomy |
partial verdict | (criminal law) a finding that the defendant is guilty of some charges but innocent of others |
partial denture | a denture replacing one or more teeth in a dental arch |
overtone partial partial tone | a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency |
Dalton's law Dalton's law of partial pressures law of partial pressures | (chemistry and physics) law stating that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases equals the sum of the partial pressures of the gases in the mixture, the pressure of a gas in a mixture equals the pressure it would exert if it occupied the same volume alone at the same temperature |
partial derivative partial | the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant |
partial correlation | a correlation between two variables when the effects of one or more related variables are removed |
Kendall partial rank correlation | a nonparametric measure of partial correlation |
partial differential equation | a differential equation involving a functions of more than one variable |
partial eclipse | an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured |
partial veil | membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth, represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap |
incomplete fracture | fracture that does not go across the entire width of the bone |
incomplete uncomplete | not complete or total, not completed, an incomplete account of his life, political consequences of incomplete military success, an incomplete forward pass |
partial | being or affecting only a part, not total, a partial description of the suspect, partial collapse, a partial eclipse, a partial monopoly, partial immunity |
incomplete uncompleted | not yet finished, his thesis is still incomplete, an uncompleted play |
fond(p) partial(p) | (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for, fond of chocolate, partial to horror movies |
partial | showing favoritism |