Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cut or divide into two parts, especially two equal parts.
- v. To split; fork.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cut or divide into two parts; specifically, in geometry, to cut or divide into two equal parts. One line bisects another when it crosses it, leaving an equal part of the line on each side of the point of intersection.
Wiktionary
- v. To cut or divide into two parts.
- v. geometry To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
- n. geometry A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
- n. philately 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cut or divide into two parts.
- v. (Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cut in half or cut in two
Examples
“And to use it, you create a haystack that is a mylist object, then pass it to a recursive function that'll call bisect () def chop_bisect_object (needle, haystack): while True: head, tail = haystack. bisect () try: if needle”
“Tribal leaders say the road, which is in the early stages of construction, would bisect their reservation in Bolivia's eastern Amazon lowlands.”
The Wall Street Journal: Indian Protests Spur Bolivia Crisis
“Between Central Station down near the River Clyde and sloping up towards Sauchiehall Street lies half a square mile of a dozen streets that meet and bisect each other in a grid of Georgian architectural splendour.”
The Guardian: Shine a light on Glasgow's seedy side streets | Kevin McKenna
“France is going to cop another pounding as (from my reading) the Iron Curtain will bisect La Belle France.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Union of European Socialist Republics.
“Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance.”
Take A Second Shot At Understanding Maths | Lifehacker Australia
“The 500,000th signature, appropriately, was from a Nebraskan, pointing out that the only independent study of the pipeline that would bisect her state showed it would yield a paltry 1400 temporary jobs, not the bonanza big oil keeps promising.”
The Huffington Post: Bill McKibben: Over 600,000 Messages Against Keystone XL Flood the Senate
“I don't see painting/video/dance/graphics etc as pigeon holes they all bisect each other.”
“All the Egyptians or whoever would need is 25 miles to bisect the country.”
“The transformation is obvious along the new, multilane roads that bisect fields in the Baigou suburbs, where developers are turning farmland into factories and malls.”
“The club has opposed the light-rail line, which would bisect its 100-year-old golf course.”
The Washington Post: Ehrlich: Rapid bus more practical for Purple Line
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bisect’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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boundaries / divisions
demarcation, limit, separation, distinction, definition, boundary, division, dichotomy, binary, dualities, categorisation, classification and 23 more...
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-sect, -section
of cutting or dividing
bisect, vivisection, section, dissect, secant, intersection, sect
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parlerodermime's Words
loquacious, orange, lackadaisical, rhythm, esoterrorist, contrary, enchanted, extraordinary, nymph, chatter, incessant, time and 168 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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Words That Sound Dirty but Really Aren't
annals, assassinate, bisect, bubbly, caucus, caulk, colloquialism, concoct, condominium, congeal, congenital, convex and 131 more...
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To Cut
Verbs meaning cut
section, incise, sever, incide, bisect, trisect, defalcate, dissect, discind, scind, fragment
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The No-No List
Words I absolutely will not say aloud to people unless I'm sure they know exactly what I'm talking about. Also words that require great diligence in pronunciation, so no one is offended by a slight...
sects, norfolk, dam, niggardly, shih tzu, push it, gaze, retardant, seaman, penal, cummin, frigate and 42 more...
Tweets
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bilby
climbers tarry, stop
then wait.
cherried leaves lift, tilt, by chilled wind vibrate
before soundless form and senseless weight.
grey eyes ask and green reflect
the shifting feet, distraught, caught
rock and void, soil lost in puff and gasp and laugh bisect.
hope is naught, closed lips don't see.
growing gaping flying lost.
moss is left, a life the cost.
free.
- Gordon Farrer, a not unhappy ending. May 12, 2009
reesetee In stamp collecting, 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. Unauthorized bisects appear frequently on mail from some countries in some periods. Bisects are usually collected on full cover with the stamp tied by a cancel. At times, some countries have permitted trisects or quadrisects. Aug 24, 2008