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BIPARTITE (from the Lat. bi-, two, an...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIPARTITE (from the See also:Lat. bi-, two, and partire, to See also:divide)  . In a See also:general sense, the word means having two corresponding parts or in duplicate . In See also:geometry, a See also:bipartite See also:curve consists of two distinct branches (see See also:PARABOLA, See also:figs . 3, 5) . In See also:botany, the word is applied to leaves divided into two parts near the See also:base . A bipartient See also:factor is a number whose square exactly divides another number . In See also:zoology, the Bipartiti was a name given by P . A . See also:Latreille to a See also:group of carnivorous See also:Coleoptera .

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