sexpartite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin sex (“six”) + partitus (“divided”)
Adjective[edit]
sexpartite (not comparable)
- In six parts.
- 2003, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, How It Works: Science and Technology, page 2573:
- This rib divided the vault bay into six compartments (of unequal size) rather than four. This is known as a sexpartite vault and is mainly to be seen in French Gothic architecture but occurs also in England at Canterbury Cathedral.