Divided into three parts; three-parted.Having three corresponding parts or copies.Made or concluded between three parties: as, a tripartite treaty.In heraldry, same as triparted.In entomology, divided from the apex to the base by two slits, forming three nearly equal parts.In botany, divided into three segments nearly but not quite down to the base: as, a tripartite leaf. Also triparted.In mathematics, homogeneous in three sets of variables.