bipartient

From Latin bis (“twice”) + partiens, present participle of partire (“to divide”).

bipartient (not comparable)

1. Dividing into two parts.
   • 1959, Arvin R. Wells, Jesting Moses, page 69:

     Irony conjures a bipartient vision of reality, however, and therefore the ironist, I contend is the only rational artist.

   • 1966, Douglas C. Layman, ‎Gunnar Thorton, Remote Handling of Mobile Nuclear Systems, page 256:

     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 .

   • 1978, Shelley Rae Saunders, Development and Distribution of Discontinuous Morphological Variation of the Human Infracranial Skeleton, page 172:

     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.

2. (mathematics, dated) Involving an operation on two equal values.
   • 1834, Mark Napier, Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, page 472:

     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.

   • 2007, Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany, page 159:

     16 = 6 x 2 (double) + 2/3 of 6 (bipartient).

bipartient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of bipartiō