(grammar) A noun case used to indicate that an object is affected only partially by the verb, or that the effect is not real. It often corresponds roughly to the English words "some" or "any." It is similar in many ways to the genitive case. Some languages that make use of the partitive case include Finnish and Estonian.

plural of partitive dative

plural of partitive ablative

(grammar, uncountable) the dative case which represents the whole or set of which the head of a partitive phrase is a portion or subset / (grammar, countable) a use or instance of such a dative case

(grammar, uncountable) the ablative case which represents the whole or set of which the head of a partitive phrase is a portion or subset / (grammar, countable) a use or instance of such an ablative case

(grammar, uncountable) the genitive case which represents the whole or set of which the head of a partitive phrase is a portion or subset / (grammar, countable) a use or instance of such a genitive case

plural of partitive genitive

plural of partition function

(mathematics) generalization of the definition of a partition function in statistical mechanics / (number theory) function that represents the number of possible partitions of a natural number.

(mathematics) A tool used in dynamical systems theory, allowing the methods of symbolic dynamics to be applied to the study of hyperbolic systems. By using a Markov partition, the system can be made to resemble a discrete-time Markov process, with the long-term dynamical characteristics of the system represented as a Markov shift.