bipartition

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ partition.

Noun

bipartition (countable and uncountable, plural bipartitions)

1. Something that is bipartite
2. sharing or partitioning in two

Verb

bipartition (third-person singular simple present bipartitions, present participle bipartitioning, simple past and past participle bipartitioned)

1. To partition into two.
   • 2016, Xueda Wen, Shunji Matsuura, Shinsei Ryu, “Edge theory approach to topological entanglement entropy, mutual information and entanglement negativity in Chern-Simons theories”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Our approach is complementary to, e.g., the existing methods using replica trick and Witten's method of surgery, and applies to a generic spatial manifold of genus g, which can be bipartitioned in an arbitrary way.

Synonyms

• dimidiate, halve; see also Thesaurus:bisect

French

Etymology

From bi- +‎ partition.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bipartition f (plural bipartitions)

1. bipartition (sharing in two)

Further reading

• “bipartition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012