Having or having to do with two variables. For example, bivariate data are data where we have two measurements of each "individual." These measurements might be the heights and weights of a group of people (an "individual" is a person), the heights of fathers and sons (an "individual" is a father-son pair), the pressure and temperature of a fixed volume of gas (an "individual" is the volume of gas under a certain set of experimental conditions), etc. Scatterplots, the correlation coefficient, and regression make sense for bivariate data but not univariate data. See univariate.