to bisect

Examples

• All

• A sort of elongated mushroom, Minnesota is roughly bisected by Route I-94.

  Academic text (2001)

• Eric and Corbett trudge up to the bank of a frozen stream bisecting their path.

  Fiction book (1993)

• You then bisect that line between that hand and the 12...

  Hunt to Kill (2010)

• Better bisect this section here.

  Lady and the Tramp (1955)

• The corners of your mouth touch but do not cross the vertical lines which bisect your eyes.

  Destination Wedding (2018)

• Bisect AC, and you get the centre of your circle.

  The Man Without a Face (1993)

• And now I bisect AF in this manner.

• This new frontline will bisect Germany and threaten to separate families and friends.

• Therefore, you know that that's a point on this line and this line bisects that line.

• We were parked on a dirt road that bisected a flat plain of mixed grass.

  Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

D

to divide

vsto bisect

680 1.1

To split something into parts or groups

refers specifically to dividing into two equal parts

S

to split

vsto bisect

513 1.3

To break something into two or more parts

restricts the result to two equal parts only

B

to bifurcate

vsto bisect

• Formal

8 8.6

To split into two parts or branches, like a river

creates two equal parts rather than branching or unequal division

H

to halve

vsto bisect

6 3.6

To cut something into two equal parts

emphasizes cutting or drawing a line to make the division

T

to transect

vsto bisect

4 7.9

To cut across a place in a straight line and divide it

results in two equal halves rather than any straight crossing

Antonyms

C

to combine

638 2.7

To mix two or more things into one

How Exact

to bisect

5 5.1

to split

513 1.3

to separate

297 1.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology