(v. i.) Divided into three parts; triparted; as, a tripartite leaf.
(v. i.) Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite.
(v. i.) Made between three parties; as, a tripartite treaty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
(2) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
(3) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(4) The virulence of Bacillus anthracis has been attributed to a tripartite toxin composed of three proteins designated protective antigen, lethal factor, and edema factor.
(5) The 125 kDa antigen was only present in the tripartite segments of SCs, at the inner edge of the lateral elements.
(6) Conceptually it ignores important issues surrounding the term 'psychopathy' and proposes a theoretical model of psychopathy based on a tripartite division of evoked potentials (early, middle and late) which ignores differences between stimulus modalities.
(7) Yeast vacuolar protein sorting (VPS1) protein and the rat microtubule-associated mechanochemical enzyme dynamin were found to be homologous to Mx1 not only in the tripartite GTP-binding motif, but also in the amino-terminal region of approximately 300 amino acids in length.
(8) If striate cells had the simple bipartite or tripartite receptive fields (RF's) classically attributed to them, they should be quite broadly tuned for spatial frequency.
(9) The resulting structure is attractive since it may explain the unusual translation behavior conferred by the tripartite leader.
(10) A tripartite gene fusion was constructed, consisting of (i) the Escherichia coli lacZ gene for beta-galactosidase, (ii) a segment encoding an endoproteolytically cleavable peptide, and (iii) the A. eutrophus gene hoxN.
(11) The complexes are structurally identical with tripartite units of the phycobilisome periphery.
(12) The positions at which the tripartite leader was attached to the three longest L1 mRNAs were mapped at the nucleotide level.
(13) The tripartite leader also confers the ability to initiate translation independent of the requirement for cap-binding protein complex or eIF-4F without any requirement for adenovirus gene products.
(14) The outer membrane appeared wavy with distortion of its tripartite structure.
(15) The 1911 National Insurance Act embraced compulsory tripartite contributions from employee, employer and the state for the first time, but targeted the poorest for unemployment and (means-tested) pensions through a patchwork of voluntary and state agencies.
(16) The relationship between virus challenge and antibody titre was represented by a tripartite curve which was essentially linear over moderate levels of virus input.
(17) A procedure has been developed for purification of the tripartite anthrax-toxin components.
(18) The sheath consists of external and internal fibrillar layers separated by a tripartite structure.
(19) The opposition has blamed the current tripartite system – involving the FSA, the Bank of England and the Treasury – for the financial crisis.
(20) Moono Mupotola, the AfDB's manager for regional integration, agreed policymakers need to take greater account of small traders as they move towards a tripartite free trade area by 2014.
Triple
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
(a.) Three times repeated; treble. See Treble.
(a.) One of three; third.
(a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee.
Example Sentences:
(1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(2) Compared with cultures from afebrile women, organisms were recovered from 51 (93%) of 55 febrile postpartum women by using the triple-lumen transcervical culture method (P less than .001).
(3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(4) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
(5) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(6) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(7) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(8) An analysis of the triple helical stabilities of these cleavage site regions as reflected by their imino acid contents fails to yield a correlation between reactivity and triple helical stability.
(9) A total of 50 patients received a cadaveric renal transplant followed by immunosuppression with triple therapy.
(10) From the area between the papillae sensory endings appearing in sections to be either single, double or triple are described.
(11) Blood flows to contralateral cerebral hemispheric structures were relatively unchanged from prehypoxic values, whereas flows to the brainstem and cerebellum nearly doubled and tripled, respectively.
(12) Four separate features could be distinguished in Fe-DNAase-1 digestions of human lymphoblast nuclei: a di-nucleosomal (2N) repeat, a mono-nucleosomal (1N) repeat, a component of "random" DNA, and triple splitting of major peaks.
(13) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(14) Twenty-two patients with radiologically localised pulmonary tuberculosis underwent one or more broncho-alveolar lavages: 10 patients had a single lavage in the disease area, 11 had two lavages (1 in a healthy zone and 1 in the affected zone) and 1 patient had a triple lavage.
(15) LU, a branch of the London mayor's Transport for London authority, claims that Aslef is seeking triple-time pay and an extra day off for members working on Boxing Day.
(16) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
(17) Total body water, extracellular body water, and plasma space were determined using the triple radiotracer technique.
(18) Incubation and heating of the polymers in 1 mM Mn2+ caused the spectral shift reported for the left-handed Z-DNA conformation in the alternating copolymer and the change reported for the triple helix in the homopolymer.
(19) His client-base has tripled since January, and now includes more than half of Shanghai and Beijing's international schools.
(20) A preparation in a special triple bath was drawn through two rubber membranes dividing the strip into three segments.