impartial

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
ableism
ableist
agism
agist
Anglocentric
discrimination
discriminative
discriminatorily
discriminatory
drumhead
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
the old school tie
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally
uneven

partialadjective (LIKING)

[ after verb ]old-fashioned or formal
having a liking for something: 偏爱…的，喜欢…的
I'm not partial to fish.我并不特别爱吃鱼。

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Liking
adorkable
affection
appreciate
approve of someone
attached
be a glutton for somethingidiom
dig
gravitate towards/to something/someone
grow on someone
hatefully
have a lot of time for someoneidiom
have a thing about something/someoneidiom
shook
smile
smile on something/someone
smitten
soft corner
taste
tight
warm
partial
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈpɑː.ʃəl/ us /ˈpɑːr.ʃəl/
music specialized
one part that makes up a complex musical note (= one that includes different sound waves); an overtone or a harmonic:
the upper partials of the harmonic series
Tuning forks give at least the octave, if not other partials.
The timbre of a voice or instrument depends on the prominence or otherwise of these harmonics (or upper partials) when the fundamental note is sounded.
The "clanging" sound of a bell results from the number and strength of upper partials which are not concordant with the fundamental.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Technical music terms
acciaccatura
accidental
aeolian
aleatory
alto clef
antiphonal
discordant
harmonic
harmonic progression
harmony
hemidemisemiquaver
inversion
overtone
rubato
scherzando
scordatura
secco recitative
secondo
staccato
whole step

partial | American Dictionary

partial
adjective
us/ˈpɑr·ʃəl/

partialadjective (NOT COMPLETE)

[ not gradable ]
not complete:
He made a partial repayment of the loan.

partialadjective (PREFERENCE)

to have a particular preference or liking for someone or something:
I’m partial toward the larger dogs.

partially

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈpɑr·ʃə·li/
The accident left him partially paralyzed.

partial | Business English

partial
adjective[ usually before noun ]
uk /ˈpɑːʃəl/us
not complete:
There has been a partial restructuring of our HR department.
Partial funding is available for overseas delegates to the conference.

Examples of partial

partial
The second partials in the directions are of course unchanged.
In order that the partials be successfully detected, there must be some separation between the mainlobe peaks.
In a system that needs to resolve the partials, frequency resolution is a priority.
Such extraction is used in phasevocoder techniques, expanded to more complex methods extracting individual partials, noise and transients.
The relationship between the partials can then be encoded by the temporal correlation among these neurons.
A few brief attempts to characterise these sounds in words: incorrect births and deaths of partials can result in short whistles.
Second, the number of partials, which is simply increased until the model quality is sufficient.
We extract additive synthesis parameters of the sound: partials' modulus and frequency.
The automation enables analysis of multiple simultaneous pitches (chords or multiple instruments), where each pitch is analysed optimally (for the first few partials).
The process of synchronising temporal features by expanding or compressing the time scale of the source partials is called time dilation.
Distilled partials having the same identifier are morphed by interpolating their frequency, amplitude and bandwidth envelopes according to a specified morphing function.
Of course there are ways to counter the problem: individual partials can be given sophisticated amplitude envelopes and subtle pitch envelopes.
Since the fundamental frequency is assumed to be constant, the number of partials is the same in each frame.
Preference for chords including upper partials such as ninths.
Constancy of f in the directions at = 0 shows that the second partials in those directions vanish, giving the upper left block of zeros.
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