a. Math. [f. L. tantus, -um as much + partītus divided.] Homogeneous and of the first degree in each of a number of sets severally, and so of total degree equal to the number of the sets.
1858. Cayley, Math. Papers, II. 517. Such covariants may be termed tantipartite covariants. Ibid. (1860), IV. 604. A function which is linear in respect to several distinct sets of variables separately is said to be tantipartite…. Thus a determinant is a tantipartite function of the lines or of the columns.
