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Bisect   Listen
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Bisect  v. t.  (past & past part. bisected; pres. part. bisecting)  
1.
To cut or divide into two parts.
2.
(Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.





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"Bisect" Quotes from Famous Books



... occurred at the same instant, the waves from the two foci would travel with the same velocity, and would therefore coalesce along a straight band which would bisect at right angles the line joining the two epicentres. But we have already seen that this band is curved, and it thus follows that the two impulses were not simultaneous. Again, since the concavity of the hyperbolic band faces the ...
— A Study of Recent Earthquakes • Charles Davison
... well-sustained character can give life to a masquerade. Without such sympathies, such points of contact, all the leading features of the individual, making him act and be acted upon, are lost; the characters being mere parallel lines, which, however near they approach, never bisect or cross each other. ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever


Words linked to "Bisect" :   cut, bisection


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