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bisecting

bisecting is the present participle and gerund of bisect.

Meaning of bisect

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.
    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.

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Questions about bisecting

What is bisecting the present participle and gerund of?
Bisecting is the present participle and gerund of bisect.

Words near bisecting in the dictionary

  1. bisecant
  2. bisecants
  3. bisect
  4. bisectarian
  5. bisected
  6. bisecting
  7. bisection
  8. bisection method
  9. bisection methods
  10. bisectional
  11. bisectionally

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