quadripartite
/ˌkwɒdrɪˈpɑːtʌɪt
/adjective
1Consisting of four parts: a simple quadripartite vault...
- The lower level of this structure consists of a triple-bay porch, with quadripartite groin vaults springing from a series of broad, round arches.
- They were oases, an escape from the weather: walled, shaded, quadripartite, which is to say divided into four and, above all, watery.
- One side effect of the New Order was the ending of a quadripartite agreement between East African Airways, BOAC, Central African Airways and South Africa Airways.
1.1Shared by or involving four parties: a quadripartite conference
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin quadripartitus, from quadri- 'four' + partitus 'divided'.
Rhymes
- pinch-eyed
- pinch-face
- pinch-faced
- pinchfart
- pinch fist
- pinchfisted
- pinch-gut
- pinch-hit
- pinch-hitter
- pinching bug
- pinching iron
- pinchingly
- pinching nut
- pinch-off
- pinch-off voltage
- pinch oneself
- Pinchot, Gifford
- pinch-out
- pinchpence
- pinchpenny
- pinch pleat
- pinch-pleated
- pinch point
- pinch roll
- pinch roller