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bisect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bisect \Bi*sect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bisected; p. pr. & vb. n. Bisecting.] [L. bis twice + secare, sectum, to cut.]
To cut or divide into two parts.
(Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts. 2 (context philately English) An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available. vb. 1 To cut or divide into two parts. 2 (context geometry English) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
WordNet
v. cut in half or cut in two; "bisect a line"
Wikipedia
Bisection is the general activity of dividing a geometric figure into two equal parts. Bisect may mean:
- bisection, in geometry, dividing something into 2 equal parts
- bisection of earthworms to study regeneration
- bisect (philately), the use of postage stamp halves
- bisection method, in mathematics, a root-finding algorithm
- bisection (software engineering), for finding code changes via a revision control system that resulted in specific behavior changes
- bisector (music)
- bisector is another term for an equidistant set
Usage examples of "bisect".
By the aid of this axiom it easily follows that the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other.
Why not bisect the unity, Motion, and so make Action and Passion two species of the one thing, ceasing to consider Action and Passion as two genera?
The broad violet carpet runners laid across the white marble floor bisected one another directly in front of the painting, forming one gigantic ianthine crucifix, with two smaller ones on either side.
Mention has already been made of the paved causeway which bisects the Theatral Area of the palace.
A mill of some kind, Tolley guessed, for the far stream of the bisected river dropped in a glassy rush over a weir.
Pokier helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.
The field shivered, sizzled, and resituated itself to bisect the cell and separate Picard and Troi.
That will bring you hard against the swamp on the west, while your eastern wall will bisect the road to the ship canal between the lake and the Canopic Nilus.
Tiny laser crosslines bisecting the sphere made it look like a standard targeting interface.
The cell was bisected by a monocrystal barrier, very like the one in the room of the Test.
Denver is an urban oasis, sequestered in relative privacy between the suburb-mimicking big-box sprawl of University Hills Shopping Center and the always-congested multilane ribbons of concrete that comprise Interstate 25, which bisects southeast Denver like a bypass scar on a cardiac patient.
Meg had brought down half of the unit deeper than the other and bisected the posthole, so that for a while we could see a neat profile of the hole itself, with a stain where the post had been and small rocks that had been thrown in to prop up the post while its hole was being refilled.
After we had recorded the excavated half of the bisected posthole in relation to the other stratigraphy, Meg had removed the remaining part of the posthole as well, in the hopes of recovering an artifacta hand-wrought nail perhaps, or even better, a button or piece of pottery that could be more closely datedbut had come up with nothing.
They bisected and quadrisected angles with thread and a straight edge made from the cover of the Bible.
Campus Martius on its way to the Mulvian Bridge, and the Via Recta bisected it at right angles to the Via Lata.