bisections

Berserk and Battle Royale are both ridiculous with exploding heads, bisections, disembowlments, torture, not to mention boobs, butts, penises, and even penetration.

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Was there one of these bisections which said _Yes_, whilst the other responded _No_?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

Supposing that the bisections of the divisions are correct to .0005 inch, which is a liberal estimate, the error caused by supposing the error in each yard to be in the same direction would be only .000014; or the total error of the tape, if both errors were in the same direction, would be 000024 of the whole length.

Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Albert A. Michelson 1891

The work proceeds slowly but surely, as the extremest pains are taken to insure accuracy, the measurements, bisections, and graduations being read off with a microscope.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 Various 1836

Was there one of these bisections which said _Yes_, whilst the other responded _No_?

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Participants performed bisections from a horizontal line placed 4.0 m in front of the goal or goal posts.

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The pillar and the half-crown move upon opposite tacks; and there _is_ a point of time (which it is for Algebra to investigate) when they will cross each other in the exact moment of their several bisections -- my aspiring half-crown tending gradually towards the fixed stars, so that perhaps it might be right to make the man in the moon trustee for that part of the accumulations which rises above the optics of sublunary bankers; whilst the Ceylon pillar is constantly unweaving its own granite texture, and dwindling earthwards.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822

The pillar and the half-crown move upon opposite tacks; and there _is_ a point of time (which it is for Algebra to investigate) when they will cross each other in the exact moment of their several bisections -- my aspiring half-crown tending gradually towards the fixed stars, so that perhaps it might be right to make the man in the moon trustee for that part of the accumulations which rises above the optics of sublunary bankers; whilst the Ceylon pillar is constantly unweaving its own granite texture, and dwindling earthwards.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

[18] also asked participants to make the bisections using a stick.

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