word | bipartite |
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definition | (1) Being in two parts. (2) Shared by two. |
eg_sentence | The report is a bipartite document, and all the important findings are in the second section. |
explanation | Usually a technical word, bipartite is common in medicine and biology. A bipartite patella, for example, is a split kneecap; many people are born with them. Many creatures have a bipartite life cycle, living life in two very distinct forms. As one example, the velella begins life as a creature that travels with thousands of others in the form of a kind of sailboat, blown across the ocean's surface with the wind; only later does each velella turn into a tiny jellyfish. |
IPA | bipartite* |
Tags: mwvb::unit:9, mwvb::unit:9:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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