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How to pronounce bisect in English?

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Type Words
Type of cut
Derivation bisection


bisect a line.

Examples of bisect

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Several streets that bisect Pearl or run parallel to it have great retail as well.
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It is possible to bisect an angle into two equal parts with ruler and compass.
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It will be one piece of a longer north-south trail that will bisect central DuPage.
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Most important, it has buried the railway line that used to bisect the city.
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They can no longer hope to bisect the country at its waist along Route 19.
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After two days of heavy fighting they managed to bisect Wola and reach Bankowy Square.
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In other cases, the boundary of an incorporated place may bisect a recognized community.
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An equivalent condition is that the diagonals bisect each other and are equal in length.
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Stop-motion devices, relished by Stoppard, telescope, bisect or reverse the flow of time.
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More examples
  • Cut in half or cut in two; "bisect a line"
  • Bisects and splits refer to postage stamps that have been cut in part, most commonly in half, but also other fractions, and postally used for the proportionate value of the entire stamp, such as a two cent stamp cut in half and used as a one cent stamp.
  • A bisector, which divides into two equal parts; 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. ...
  • (Bisected) A stamp cut in half (with official permission), due to a shortage of stamps of a lower denomination.
  • (Bisected) To divide, mark, or cut into two portions.
  • A stamp cut or perforated into two parts, each half representing half the face value of the original stamp. Officially authorized bisects have often been used during temporary shortages of commonly used denominations. ...
  • A stamp which is cut in half, usually diagonally. Often used when stamps are in short supply.
  • To divide a geometric figure into two congruent parts.
  • A half of a stamp which has been cut in two, usually by scissors or knife, to cover the postage of half the original face value. Bisects are commonly found with diagonal cuts and horizontal cuts, but occasionally with vertical cuts as well. ...