bipartient
adjEtymology From Latin bis (“twice”) + partiens, present participle of partire (“to divide”).
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Dividing into two parts.
- Irony conjures a bipartient vision of reality, however, and therefore the ironist, I contend is the only rational artist.1959, Arvin R. Wells, Jesting Moses, page 69:
- A transfer area connecting the hot cells with the existing Special Equipment Service Area in Building 607 and bipartient shielding doors separating the transfer area from the hot cells .1966, Douglas C. Layman, Gunnar Thorton, Remote Handling of Mobile Nuclear Systems, page 256:
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- The present study then examined the total age pattern for bipartient trochlear notch. In accord with Heine (1925) there were no bipartient notches in children of any of the three groups.1978, Shelley Rae Saunders, Development and Distribution of Discontinuous Morphological Variation of the Human Infracranial Skeleton, page 172:
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Mathematics, Sciences Dated Involving an operation on two equal values.
- But this must be specially looked to in the partition of incommensurable quantities that it will go on eternally without end, as will plainly appear in its proper place; thust of the number 10 and its bipartient root, or, as it is called, square root, no common measure will be found in eternity; much less that greatest divisor; as in its proper place.1834, Mark Napier, Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, page 472:
- 16 = 6 x 2 (double) + 2/3 of 6 (bipartient).2007, Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany, page 159: