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Meaning of partitive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  partitive
      adj 1: (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a
             whole or a quantity that is less than the whole; "a
             partitive construction"
      2: indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition
         or division into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"
      3: serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive
         tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger
         than the separative" [syn: {partitive}, {separative}]
      n 1: word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a
           part as distinct from a whole

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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