bisect

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• He is as blind as a bat, but recognized the dress, and pulled off his hat to it in the most elegant style. —  An Old-Fashioned Girl
• Even as he thought this he swung his sword, to bisect the still-invisible figure. —  Conan the Fearless
• The lance shattered, as though it had been made of glass, but another lancer spurred toward Nylan, a sabre glittering in the midday sun, held low and angled to bisect the engineer, more light glaring into Nylan's eyes. —  The Chaos Balance
• It's certain that I would never have been able to find the source of this issue without git-bisect, as manual bisection with svn would have been too tedious to even consider. —  OSNews
• E.g., that in order to bisect a line on an unerring principle I must draw from its extremities two intersecting arcs; this no doubt is taught by mathematics only in synthetical propositions; but if I know that it is only by this process that the intended operation can be performed, then to say that, if I fully will the operation, I also will the action required for it, is an analytical proposition; for it is one and the same thing to conceive something as an effect which I can produce in a certain way, and to conceive myself as acting in this way. —  The Afghan Tragedy

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