bipartite
[bahy-pahr-tahyt]
adjective
divided into or consisting of two parts.
Law. being in two corresponding parts: a bipartite contract.
shared by two; joint: a bipartite pact; bipartite rule.
Botany. divided into two parts nearly to the base, as a leaf.
Origin of bipartite
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Historical Examples of bipartite
Bipartite, bi′part-īt, or bī-prt′īt, adj. divided into two like parts.
It was bipartite, and rather on the incongruous principle discountenanced in the Horatian Epistle to the Pisos.
The Confessions of a CollectorWilliam Carew Hazlitt
This important class of bipartite unequal-membered anisometrical stanzas was very much in vogue in the Middle English period.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
But as they mostly consist of two quite unequal parts, they certainly stand in a closer relationship to the bipartite stanzas.
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
But those of six lines may belong either to the bipartite (a a a, a a a) or to the tripartite class (a a, a a, a a).
A History of English VersificationJakob Schipper
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