part
/pɑrt/ n [C/U] (SOME)Definition
› some but not all of something larger or greater: [U] I could only eat part of my dinner. [C] Parts of the movie were good. [U] Surgeons had to remove part of his lung. [U] Part of the problem is that she doesn’t like her boss very much. partly /ˈpɑrt·li/ adv [not gradable] › The house is partly owned by her father.
(Definition of part n (SOME) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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