Word Meanings - TRIPARTITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Three-coat
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Three-pointed
  Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Three-cornered
  Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• Three-quarter
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
• THREEDECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• THREEVALVED
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Three-score
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• THREEFLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Three-sided
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Threefold
  Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
• Three-square
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

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