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word (such a `some'' or `less'') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" disjunctive indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts; "partitive tendencies in education" (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole; "a partitive construction" |
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