Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided into many parts.
- adjective Involving more than two nations or parties; multilateral.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Divided or cleft into many parts; having several parts; multifid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Divided into many parts; having several parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Divided into
multiple parts - adjective Involving multiple
nations ;multilateral - adjective physics Describing a system of three or more
entangled quantum states
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving more than two parties
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Examples
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1 Probably intended for "multipartite" — Biddle gives it as "polipartite." —
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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And for all of the flaws in our government I am far more at ease with a multipartite system.
Ignatieff, Fork, Done Lindsay Stewart 2009
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The council resolved that where structures were non-existent, national centres should influence their governments to establish formal multipartite structures for broad-based participation in socio-economic issues.
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The council resolved that where structures were non-existent, national centres should influence their governments to establish formal multipartite structures for broad-based participation in socio-economic issues.
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If, then, there is something else which makes the soul one, this unifying agency would have the best right to the name of soul, and we shall have to repeat for it the question: Is it one or multipartite?
On the Soul 2002
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"Technically the Hare virus is a multipartite, stealth, slow polymorphic virus which makes it particularly destructitve."
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At the regional and local levels, however, the multipartite effects described in this subsection are definitly noticeable.
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It would be a mistake for any multipartite approach to the economy to try and limit the counter-balancing affect of that reality.
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Soon the conference took on the character, which was to be a recurrent feature of the "bunker period," of a hysterical multipartite shouting match.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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The inflorescence corresponds almost exactly to the ornament, but the multipartite leaf has also had a particular influence upon its development and upon that of several collateral forms which I cannot now discuss.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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