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partitive

DEFINITIONS OF: partitive

1

adj serving to separate or divide into parts

“partitive tendencies in education”
Synonyms:
separative
disjunctive
serving or tending to divide or separate

adj indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts

“partitive tendencies in education”

adj (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole

“a partitive construction”

n word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole

Type of:
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a unit of language that native speakers can identify
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