Definitions for bisects

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bisects bi·sect

Spelling: [verb bahy-sekt, bahy-sekt; noun Bisects is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in bisects (bceisst).

Definitions for bisects

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 bisects

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

Examples for bisects

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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