Definitions for bisect

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bisect bi·sect

Spelling: [verb bahy-sekt, bahy-sekt; noun Bisect is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in bisect (bceist).

Definitions for bisect

noun

1. Also called split. Philately. a portion of a stamp, usually half, used for payment of a proportionate amount of the face value of the whole stamp.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
2. Geometry. to cut or divide into two equal parts:
3. to intersect or cross:

verb (used without object)

1. to split into two, as a road; fork:

Origin of bisect

1640-50; bi-¹ + -sect Latin sectus, past participle of secāre to cut, sever; see section

Examples for bisect

In addition they learned how to bisect and trisect the angle.

A straight line twenty feet in length should bisect the circle to separate the territory for the players.

Now we do some more of that bisecting; this time we bisect EC at F.

At length he rose and climbed on, presently turning at a right-angle to bisect the strip to its boundary before he paused to rest.

We must bisect as far as may be, but the division is after all to be into limbs, not parts.

After bisecting the Antiphasis, you can proceed to bisect each of the sections; and so on.

Then will come a moment in which the first circle will meet the second; will it enter and bisect it?

bisect its short edges and rule a line connecting these points.

For a design plan like Sketch A, bisect the semi-diameters and connect these points.

When partition came in 1947, the Pashtun demanded the redrawing of the old borders of the Raj so as not to bisect their homeland.