bipartient

Adjective

bipartient (not comparable)

1. 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
2. (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...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