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 alignment, in linguistics *

Tripartite motto Hendiatris ( ; ) is a figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are used to express one idea. The phrases "sun, sea and sand", and "wine, women and song" are examples. A tripartite motto is the conventional English term for a mott ...

, or hendiatris, a figure of speech *

Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland The Tripartite System was the selective school system of state-funded secondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 onwards in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 19 ...

Tripartite classification of authority The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) distinguished three ideal types of legitimate political leadership/domination/ authority (). He wrote about these three types of domination both in his essay "The Three Types of Legitimate Rule", whi ...

, Max Weber's typology of legitimate political authority * Tripartite

contract A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of thos ...

or agreement; between three parties Political: *

Tripartite system (politics) The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable ...

, the separation of political power among a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary * Tripartite Agreement (Horn of Africa), a 2018 cooperation agreement between Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia * 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 The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu (in that order) and in the ...

between the Axis Powers of World War II *

Britain–India–Nepal Tripartite Agreement The Tripartite Agreement between the United Kingdom, India and Nepal is a treaty signed in 1947 concerning the rights of Gurkhas recruited in military services of United Kingdom and India. This agreement does not apply to Gurkhas employed in the Ne ...

, 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 *

Tripartisme ''Tripartisme'' () was the mode of government in France from 1944 to 1947, when the country was ruled by a three-party alliance of communists, socialists and Christian democrats, represented by the French Communist Party (PCF), the French Section ...

, the "Three-parties alliance", a coalition government in France after World War Ii *

Madrid Accords The Madrid Accords, formally the Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania setting out six principles which would end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a ...

, 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 (1988), signed between Cuba, Angola and South Africa on 22 December 1988 to end the Angolan Civil War *

Tripartite Alliance The Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The ANC holds a plurality in the South African parliament, ...

, a 1990s political alliance in South Africa *

Tripartism Tripartism is an economic system of neo-corporatism based on a mixed economy and tripartite contracts between employers' organizations, trade unions, and the government of a country. Each is to act as a social partner to create economic policy ...

, 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 * Trialism in Austria-Hungary, a political movement that aimed to create a Croatian state equal in status to Austria and Hungary. *

Tripartite Convention The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the ...

, an 1899 convention between the US, UK, and Germany that partitioned the Samoan islands * Tripartite Indenture, an agreement made in February 1405 to divide up England 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, Saint Petersburg, Russia * Tripartite-class minehunter, a ship *

Tripartite symbiosis Tripartite symbiosis is a type of symbiosis involving three species. This can include any combination of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, or archaea, often in interkingdom symbiosis. Ants Fungus-growing ants Ants of Attini cultivate fung ...

, in ecology May refer to: * The tripartite periodization of history into ancient, Middle Ages and modern. See Middle_Ages#Terminology_and_periodisation for more information. * The European Tripartite Programme, a trilingual engineering formation.

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