a. Math. [See UNI- and PARTITE a.] Consisting of or involving a single part.
1870. Cayley, Math. Papers (1893), VI. 464. The quantic is unipartite, bipartite, tripartite, etc., according as the number of sets [of variables] is one, two, three, etc.
1890. Nature, 20 Feb., 380/2. In the theory of the single system [of equations] the conceptions and symbolism … are based upon the properties of single integral numbers and their partitions into single integral parts. In this sense the former theory may be regarded as being unipartite.
