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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tripartite
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a tripartite political system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ You understand better than perhaps any of your predecessors that ours is a tripartite system of government, with three co-equal branches.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tripartite

Tripartite \Trip"ar*tite\, a. [L. tripartitus; tri- (see Tri-) + partitus, p. p. of partiri to part, to divide. See Part, v. i.]

  1. Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.

  2. Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite.
    --A. Smith.

  3. Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tripartite

"divided in three," early 15c., from Latin tripartitus "divided into three parts," from tri- "three" (see three) + partitus, past participle of partiri "to divide" (see part (v.)).

Wiktionary
tripartite

a. 1 In three parts. 2 Done by three parties (as an agreement).

WordNet
tripartite

adj. involving three parties or elements; "the triangular mother-father-child relationship"; "a trilateral agreement"; "a tripartite treaty"; "a tripartite division"; "a three-way playoff" [syn: triangular, trilateral, three-party, three-way]

Wikipedia
Tripartite (theology)

In Christian theology, the tripartite view of man (trichotomy) holds that man is a composite of three distinct components: body, soul and spirit. It is in contrast to the bipartite view (dichotomy), where soul and spirit are taken as different terms for the same entity.

Tripartite

Tripartite means composed of or split into three parts, or refers to three parties. Specifically, it may also refer to any of the following:

  • 3 (number)
  • Tripartite language
  • Tripartite motto
  • Tripartite System in British education
  • Tripartite classification of authority
  • Tripartite contract or agreement; between three parties

Political:

Tripartite Government has an executive, legislative, and judicial branch

  • Tripartite Agreement of 1936, an international monetary agreement entered into by the United States, France, and Great Britain to stabilize their nations' currencies.
  • Tripartite Pact between the Axis Powers of World War II
  • Britain–India–Nepal Tripartite Agreement, signed in 1947 concerning the rights of Gurkhas in military service.
  • Tripartite Declaration of 1950, signed by the United States, Britain, and France to guarantee the territorial status quo determined by Arab–Israeli armistice agreements
  • Three-parties - the "Three-parties alliance", or Tripartisme, a coalition government in France after World War 2
  • Madrid Accords, signed by Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania in 1975 to end Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara
  • The Tripartite Accord (Lebanon), signed on 28 December 1985 between three factions to end the Lebanese Civil War
  • The Tripartite Accord (Angola), signed between Cuba, Angola and South Africa on 22 December 1988 to end the Angolan Civil War
  • Tripartite Alliance, (redirects to African National Congress)
  • Tripartism, or Tripartite consultations, between representatives of the government, workers and employers
  • Tripartite Struggle between the Pratihara, Rashtrakuta and Pala Empires, centered at the Kannauj Triangle

Religious:

  • Tripartite view, in Christian theology, holds that man is a composite of three distinct components: body, soul and spirit.
  • Tripartite Tractate, a third or mid-fourth century Gnostic work found in the Nag Hammadi library
  • Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, a medieval church history book, also known as Tripartite History

Other:

  • Tripartite Bridge
  • Tripartite-class minehunter, a ship

May refer to:

  • The tripartite periodization of history into ancient, Middle Ages and modern. See Middle Age for more information.
  • The European Tripartite Programme, a trilingual engineering formation.

Usage examples of "tripartite".

On December 3 the Japanese ambassador in Rome called on the Duce and formally asked Italy to declare war on the United States, in accordance with the Tripartite Pact, as soon as the conflict with America should begin.

Stalin to meet us at some agreed unshattered town in Germany for a Tripartite Meeting in July, We should not rendezvous at any place within the present Russian military zone.

Ash Ock are responsible for unleashing this tripartite Paratwa, and that this assassin is indeed honeysucking multiple victims for some unknown purpose, then something else seems clear: Our enemy is in one hell of a rush.

The friendly seaside resort -- where sea baths were taken as early as 1823 -- with its low-lying fishing village and dome-surmounted casino, its medium-high dunes and scrub pine forest, with its fishing boats, its hundred and fifty feet of pier, and its tripartite bathhouse, with the watch-tower of the German Lifesaving Society, was situated exactly halfway between Neufahrwasser and Glettkau on the shores of the Gulf of Danzig.

Security lady at the Rectus Bulbi and down to the YYY studio's freezing pink basement, where the only person who didn't talk like an angry cartoon character, a severely carbuncular man at the engineer's board, would by way of comment point only at a tripartite onionskin screen that stood folded beneath a handless wall-clock, possibly signifying that no hiatus could be all that long if the absent party hadn't taken her trusty screen.

Big enough so that these basidiocarps," and he indicated the tripartite fruiting bodies nearby, "and the ones we saw at the place where we were attacked by the mokusinga could all be reproductive bodies sprouting from the same individual source.

Big enough so that these basidiocarps,” and he indicated the tripartite fruiting bodies nearby, “and the ones we saw at the place where we were attacked by the mokusinga could all be reproductive bodies sprouting from the same individual source.

Installed at the tripartite junction was a first-rate weatherproofed road sign, newly stamped and finished, that had been knocked sufficiently askew to render the directions imprinted thereon as useless as tits on a boar hog.