To cut or divide into two parts. In geometry, one line bisects another when it crosses it, leaving an equal part of the line on each side of the point where it is crossed.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To cut or divide into two parts.
2. To divide into two equal parts.
Divided into two equal parts.
Dividing into two equal parts.
The act of cutting into two equal parts; the division of any line or quantity into two equal parts.
Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
bisection Roget’s Thesaurus §91
N. bisection, # bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety
V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize, go halves, divide with, separate, fork, bifurcate, branch off, out, ramify
Adj. bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi
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