That divides something into parts. / (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.

(grammar) A partitive word, phrase or case.

plural of partitioning

(forming adjectives) Having the specified number of parts.

In a partitive manner.

Relating to partitions.

The quality of being partitive.

(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.

(mathematics) A collection of non-negative-valued functions defined on a topological space, such that every point has only finitely many nonzero values, and these sum to one.

plural of partitive case