bisection
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- noun
- /baɪˈsɛkʃən/
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bisectión
- In geometry class, we learned that the bisection of a line segment creates two equal parts.
Examples
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A sagittal bisection was made of the aligned specimens along the central ridge to view the position of the hamate relative to the middle phalanx (Figure 4).
Academic text (2015) -
The neutral was then determined through the bisection of this maximal range of tibial rotation.
Academic text (2001) -
And then I do a bisection of that, my big black line.
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OK, So bisection on R is the most obvious and well known example.
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"Arendt's definition of action may have been fuzzy, but her bisection of labor and work was inspired.
Academic text (2010) -
This bisection probably launched one of the earliest divisive responses to arts restructuring.
Academic text (1996) -
The cadaver is presented in two halves with bisection level with the umbilicus.
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I found I felt best physically enwebbed in sharp angles, acute bisections, and shaved corners.
Fiction book (1998) -
In "The American Renaissance Reenvisioned," Joanne Dobson points out the radical bisection of mid-nineteenth-century American literature:
Academic text (2004) -
He misjudged slightly: the body of the racquet swept effortlessly through the court's vertical bisection plane, but the handle struck with a thud.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
A division of something into two separate parts
Antonyms
How Equal
Surface Forms
Morphology
bisection = sect (transparent) = bi + sect + ion
The prefix 'bi-' is transparently added to 'sect' to form 'bisect', meaning to divide into two parts.
Etymology
The word bisection comes from the parts bi- meaning 'two' and sect meaning 'to cut', as you see in bicycle ('two' wheels) and section ('a cut' or part). So a bisection is the action of cutting or dividing something into two equal parts.