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bisect

US/baɪˈsɛkt/

bisect verb: to cut or divide into two parts.

Verb

bisect (third-person singular simple present bisects, present participle bisecting, simple past and past participle bisected)

  1. (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.
    • The river bisects the town.
    • The quadrennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 84
    1. (transitive) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
    2. (transitive) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.

Noun

bisect (plural bisects)

  1. A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
  2. An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.

bisect meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

bisect in Tamil

இரு சமக்கூறிடு, இருசமக் கூறிடு, இருசமக்கூறிடுதல், இரு சமவெட்டு, இரு சமக் கூறிடு, இருசம கூறிடு

bisect in Urdu

آدھا کرنا, دو حصے میں کاٹنا, تقسیم کرنا

bisect in Bengali

দ্বিখণ্ডিত করা

bisect in Malayalam

halve, cut in half, divide in two
അർദ്ധിക്കുക, പകുതിയാക്കുക, രണ്ടായി വിഭജിക്കുക, ദ്വിധാകരിക്കുക, രണ്ടായി ഭാഗിക്കുക, രണ്ടായി മുറിക്കുക
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bisect in Kannada
ಎರಡಾಗಿಸು, ಇಬ್ಭಾಗಿಸು, ಅರ್ಧಿಸು

Examples of bisect in a sentence

  • One half of the bisected line is the same as the other.
  • A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal.
  • Although Endo-M hydrolyzed asialobiantennary oligosaccharide containing bisecting GlcNAc, neither Endo-CC1 nor Endo-CC2 did.

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Synonyms of bisect

Antonyms

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Forms of bisect

Verb
third-person singular presentbisects
present participlebisecting
past participlebisected
pastbisected
Noun
pluralbisects

Origin of bisect

From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).

Words that rhyme with bisect

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Questions about bisect

What does bisect mean?
Bisect means to cut or divide into two parts.
What is bisect in Tamil?
Bisect in Tamil is இரு சமக்கூறிடு, இருசமக் கூறிடு, இருசமக்கூறிடுதல். See Bisect meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bisect?
Bisect can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce bisect?
Bisect is pronounced /baɪˈsɛkt/ (US).
What is the past tense of bisect?
The past tense of bisect is bisected.

Words near bisect in the dictionary

  1. bisdioxopiperazines
  2. BISDN
  3. bise
  4. bisecant
  5. bisecants
  6. bisect
  7. bisectarian
  8. bisected
  9. bisecting
  10. bisection
  11. bisection method

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bisect (page history and authors); bisect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bisect (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bisect (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bisect (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bisect (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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