The phrase "a partial description" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an incomplete or limited explanation of something.
Example: "The report provided a partial description of the project's objectives, leaving out key details."
Alternatives: "an incomplete description" or "a limited description".
The documents offer only a partial description of events, and none of Mr. Trump's tax lawyers agreed to be interviewed for this article.
We also present a partial description of the convex hull of the incidence vectors of these Steiner networks.
Due to the intervention of this surface process, a partial description of the reaction mechanism has only been stated.
We demonstrate the importance of using a complete spectral description even if a partial description (e.g., a model without a high-energy tail) is statistically satisfactory.
Here is a partial description of Matapalo, on the Pacific Coast: "Best waves are a 15- to 25-minute walk through the forest trails, where monkeys, toucans, macaws and other tropical wonders can be spotted".
During the pre-design step, some parameters like operating conditions are not precisely known but we have an interval of possible values, worse we only have a partial description of the problem.
The multiplicity of possible and plausible causal mechanisms defies the usefulness of single simplistic deterministic or probabilistic models as they can only provide a very partial description of "a" possible causal relationship.
This paper makes a contribution in showing that the study of single social network offers a very partial description of user's interactions and that only multiplex studies can offer a vision closer to reality.
This is, of course, a very partial description.
The underlying mechanism is simple, but highly effective: cooperation between automatic PKB evaluation (relationships between variables or individuals in ClBR or rule evaluation in EbC-DEA) and blind analysis (hierarchical clustering- in ClBR or DEA in EbC-DEA) permits the completion of an initialy partial description of the domain provided by the experts to get good models for complex phenomena.
If you would like to see them all, type netstat /? for a complete listing and partial description (provided you have the background knowledge on what they imply).
