Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone, Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire, Having a predilection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond, noun_ 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, a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency, Mathematics A partial derivative