Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

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  • noun Something that is bipartite

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ partition

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Examples

  • "Returning to the original conversation, don't you find, Anak, that though Loria handles the bipartition of the revenues with scrupulous care, he yet omits one important factor, namely —"

    Local Color 2010

  • July 23rd, 2009 4: 06 pm ET spend more time on health care reform and less time on advertising bipartition matters

    DNC to launch new ad blasting health plan opponents 2009

  • Why not US congress work in a bipartition manner to pass a resolution on climate change ?

    Al Gore answers your climate change questions 2009

  • These arise by the repeated bipartition of a single cell, and escape finally, forming independent colonies.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • Expression in the naturalistic sense simply lacks expression in the spiritual sense, that is to say, the characteristic itself of activity and of spirituality, and therefore the bipartition into poles of beauty and of ugliness.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • This bipartition has already been noted above, as a mark of the active character of feeling, precisely because the same bipartition is found in all forms of activity.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • "Returning to the original conversation, don't you find, Anak, that though Loria handles the bipartition of the revenues with scrupulous care, he yet omits one important factor, namely --"

    Local Colour 1906

  • In the distribution of all the parallax stars we once more find a similar bipartition of the stars.

    Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898

  • Nevertheless the bipartition of the stars into two such distinct classes must be considered as vague and doubtful.

    Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898

  • If the parallax stars are arranged according to their apparent proper motion, or even according to their absolute proper motion, a similar bipartition is revealed in their frequency distribution.

    Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898

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