tripartite
divided into or consisting of three parts: the tripartite occupation of West Germany.
involving, participated in, or made by three parties: a tripartite treaty signed by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
Botany. divided into three parts.
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How to use tripartite in a sentence
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.
TV’s buzziest shows aren’t trying to trick viewers anymore | Emily VanDerWerff | January 17, 2022 | VoxNext day there was another meeting on the same raft, but this was tripartite, for the King of Prussia was present.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneJurisdiction over the tripartite division of territory, east, south and west, was to be assigned to district chairmen.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyHence even the thin nectary is essentially, I infer, tripartite; hence its tendency to bifurcation at its top.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II | Charles DarwinThese three, are ev'n the fin'st one fool tripartite, that was ere discovered.
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (6 of 10): The Queen of Corinth; | Francis Beaumont
Lastly, the tripartite division of the nature of the soul here first indicated is a permanent contribution to philosophy.
Authors of Greece | T. W. Lumb
British Dictionary definitions for tripartite
/ (traɪˈpɑːtaɪt) /
divided into or composed of three parts
involving three participants
(esp of leaves) consisting of three parts formed by divisions extending almost to the base
Derived forms of tripartite
- tripartitely, adverb
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