This word has a widespread use in our language and can refer to various issues with it.
part of a whole
The word partial is used to refer that which is not complete or not totalthat is to say, that which involves a part of a whole is called as partial.
“The eclipse was partial, it did not express itself in all its splendor, that is why we could not appreciate it from the earth.”.
This use that refers to part is usually used in many circumstances and contexts and on different things and objects that can just be affected or modified in a part.
When it is said of something that it is partial, it will be realizing that it is a portion, either in time, or in quantity.
“We are working part-time for the arrangements.” “In the company they hired me part-time, that is, the employee, by contract, will comply with a certain number of working hours that is not the usual number of a working day considered full.”
Something that is not fair or a subjective position
On the other hand, if something is not fair or equitablewe also usually call it partial.
“ Marcela’s opinion is biased, especially if we take into account that she is a friend of the person who started the scandal.”
At the level of opinions and judicial decisions, for example, there is often much talk of a partial opinion or a partial ruling, as appropriate.
In any case, especially in the second, it is very serious to act in this way because when it comes to the administration of justice, things must be absolutely fair and equitable because otherwise a tremendous injustice will be committed that will directly affect life. of someone.
Of a victim, who will be left without justice, or a person who is accused and sentenced for something that he has not done only because he has fallen in a biased judge or court.
And in terms of opinion, it is also common that when we are interested parties in something, our position is not the most objective, but on the contrary, it will be subjective.
This is not bad as long as it does not negatively affect the course or development of any issue.
So when someone acts or thinks in a partial way, they will be taking into account only a part of reality and will judge it according to their point of view only or at their convenience.
This indicated behavior is opposed to the impartiality that precisely implies the opposite, acting objectively and lacking all kinds of prejudices.
Exam
Meanwhile, in the educational fieldmore precisely at the tertiary and university level, the partial term turns out to be of very recurrent and common use since with it it is designated to the exam that the student renders of a part of the subject or subject that he is studying.
Generally, when the subjects are annual, teachers evaluate the knowledge learned by their students in two parts, then, each of these evaluations that will correspond to a part of the subject in question will be called partial, partial of the first semester and partial the second quarter, for example.
Then, both grades added and divided by two will give us the student’s average in the subject and will be decisive when it comes to approval or not.
“I am preparing for the midterm of the second semester, unfortunately, I will not be able to attend your meeting.”
Result of a match or competition that is not the end even because it did not end
and in the Sports field the use of the partial term is also recurrent, since in this way the result that a player or team has reached at a certain moment of a competition or match and that is not the end or definitive of the same since the stipulated or complementary time still remains to be played.
“The partial of the match between Boca Juniors and River Plate is 3 to 1 in favor of the Boca team.”
partial function
On his side, a partial function It is that relationship that associates each element of a set or domain with at most one of the elements corresponding to another set or codomain. In this function it is not necessary that all the elements of the domain are linked to those of the codomain.
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