1. involving or relating to two lines
Usage: geometry
2. linear with respect to each of two variables separately
Usage: mathematics

Examples

• The bilinear transformation maps lines to lines in the coordinate plane.
• Matrix multiplication is a bilinear operation in linear algebra.
• The bilinear form takes two vectors as input and produces a scalar.
• Engineers use bilinear interpolation to estimate values between data points.
• The bilinear map preserves certain geometric properties.
• Students learned about bilinear functions in their advanced mathematics course.