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bisect en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /baɪˈsɛkt/ (General-American)
  • bī-sĕkt' (General-American)

Etymology

From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Meanings

  1. A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
  2. 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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bisects Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

dissect · vivisect

bisect en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /baɪˈsɛkt/ (General-American)
  • bī-sĕkt' (General-American)

Etymology

From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.
    • The quadrennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period. 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 84:
    • The river bisects the town.
  2. (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts. ▸ To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
  3. (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts. ▸ To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bisects Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bisected Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bisected Tense=Past lexicographic
bisecting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

double

Hypernyms

divide

Synonyms

dimidiate · bisect · halve · dichotomize (to divide into two parts) · bipartition · half

Translations (22)

bg разполовявам (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · hu megfelez (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · sv dela i tu (to cut or divide into two parts) · iu ᑎᕆᖅᑯᓕᐅᕐᓂᖅ (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · it bisecare (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · de halbieren (to cut or divide into two parts) · haw pālua (to cut or divide into two parts) · fi puolittaa (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · io bisekar (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · ru разделать пополам (to cut or divide into two parts) · bg разполовя (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · el διχοτομώ (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · hu elfelez (to cut or divide into two parts) · sv halvera (to cut or divide into two parts) · hu félbevág (to cut or divide into two parts) · bg разполовявам (to cut or divide into two parts) · io bisekar (to cut or divide into two parts) · fi puolittaa (to cut or divide into two parts) · fi halkaista kahtia (to cut or divide into two parts) · hu felez (geometry: to divide an angle, line segment or other figure into two equal parts) · bg разполовя (to cut or divide into two parts) · mi weherua (to cut or divide into two parts)