Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the parts of a line which has been bisected, or divided into two equal parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of two
equal parts of aline or othermagnitude .
Etymologies
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bi- + segment
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Examples
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He made an estimate, one day, that I had eaten since we started thirty-one and a half chickens, and I have no doubt I had; for chickens were my piece de resistance as well as entrees; and then they WERE chickens, not old hens, -- little specks of darlings, just giving one hop from the egg-shell to the gridiron, and each time the waiter only brought you one bisegment of the speck, all of whose edible possibilities could easily be salted down in a thimble.
Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864
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