partitive

Dividing or serving to divide something into parts; marked by division.

Indicating a part as distinct from a whole, as some of the coffee in the sentence She drank some of the coffee.

A partitive word, such as many or less.

A partitive construction or case.

In grammar, denoting a part; defining a part by expression of the whole to which it belongs; indicating a part as related to a whole: as, the head of a man; a half of it; or,in French, du pain, ‘some bread,’ or ‘of the bread.’

In grammar, a word expressing partition; a distributive.

Denoting a part.

A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part.

that divides something into parts

indicating a part rather than the whole of something; e.g. some