The partial derivative extends the concept of the derivative in the one-dimensional case by studying real-valued functions defined on subsets of . Informally, the partial derivative of a scalar field may be thought of as the derivative of said function with respect to a single variable. In it is common to write in place of , and we usually speak of the partial derivative of with respect to or , defined by respectively.
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