partial

In a sentence

Six example sentences with partial, each labelled with its topic.

• The upload failed at ninety percent, leaving a partial file that the editor opened as forty minutes of silence.

  Technology

• A partial recovery was still enough for him to climb stairs unaided, though his left hand stayed weak.

  Medicine

• Rangers report only a partial return of the marsh birds, roughly a third of the flock counted before the drought.

  Environment

• A partial eclipse leaves a crescent sun, and the light under the trees turns into hundreds of tiny crescents.

  Science

• Only a partial record of the census survived the fire, so historians estimate the missing counties from tax rolls.

  History

• The airline offered a partial refund, returning the fare but keeping the fees, which came to nearly half the ticket.

  Finance

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains partial. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• alternative
• approach
• minority
• registration
• evident
• security
• volunteer
• abandon
• dramatic
• normally
• generate
• inevitable