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bipartite, a.|baɪˈpɑːtaɪt|
Also 6 bipertite, bypartite.
[ad. L. bipartītus, pa. pple. of bipartīre; see bipartient.]
1. a. Divided into or consisting of two parts.
1574Newton Health Mag. Pref. 1 Such indications [are] bipartite and devided into two partes, that is to witte Conservation, and Preservation. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 3 A bipartite diuision of the yeare into winter and sommer. 1635Swan Spec. M. viii. §2 (1643) 386 A bipartite hoof. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 307/2 A corresponding gland..of large size and bipartite.
b. Divided between or shared by two.
1618Bolton Florus i. ix. 22 The authoritie..should bee now but from yeere to yeere and bipartite. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 65 This bipartite, or joint-power.
c. Bot. Divided into two parts nearly to the base.
1864in Webster. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 162 Observe also the..bipartite calyx of Common Furze.
d. Math. Of a curve (see quot. 1879).
1858Cayley Math. Papers (1889) II. 527 Bipartite binary quantics. 1869Ibid. (1893) VI. 464 The quantic is unipartite, bipartite, tripartite, &c., according as the number of sets is one, two, three, &c. 1879G. Salmon Higher Plane Curves (ed. 3) 168 We shall then call the curve we have been considering a bipartite curve, as consisting of two distinct continuous series of points.
2. in Law, of a contract, indenture, etc.: Drawn up in two corresponding parts, one for each party.
1506Bury Wills (1850) 106 My present testament and last will bipertite. 1592West Symbol. i. §47 These deedes indented are not only bypartite..but may be tripartite. |
