(Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole; a partitive construction'

indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts; partitive tendencies in education'

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

[ Syn: separative ]