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tripartite

[ trahy-pahr-tahyt ]

adjective

  1. divided into or consisting of three parts:

    the tripartite occupation of West Germany.

  2. involving, participated in, or made by three parties:

    a tripartite treaty signed by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

  3. Botany. divided into three parts.


tripartite

/ traɪˈpɑːtaɪt /

adjective

  1. divided into or composed of three parts
  2. involving three participants
  3. (esp of leaves) consisting of three parts formed by divisions extending almost to the base
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • triˈpartitely, adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tripartite1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin tripartītus divided into three parts, equivalent to tri- tri- + partītus, past participle of partīre to divide. See part, -ite 2
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Example Sentences

The first season of Netflix’s The Witcher offered up a complicated tripartite timeline that viewers had to puzzle out, but its second season was much more straightforward.

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Next day there was another meeting on the same raft, but this was tripartite, for the King of Prussia was present.

Jurisdiction over the tripartite division of territory, east, south and west, was to be assigned to district chairmen.

Hence even the thin nectary is essentially, I infer, tripartite; hence its tendency to bifurcation at its top.

These three, are ev'n the fin'st one fool tripartite, that was ere discovered.

Lastly, the tripartite division of the nature of the soul here first indicated is a permanent contribution to philosophy.

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