Bisect

Definition: Bisect

Bisect

Verb

1. Cut in half or cut in two; "bisect a line".

Date "bisect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references)

Note: Bisect \Bi*sect"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bisected; present participle verb or noun Bisecting.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A diagram of the above-ground portions of plants and also showing the whole plants, i. e. roots and shoots, in one or more vertical profiles. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
bisection	Verb: bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bisect

English words defined with "bisect": Bisected, Bisecting. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bisect": angle of draw ♦ broad lode. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Bisect" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (bissextile).

"Bisect" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Bisect" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	55.56%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	44.44%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

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Language		Translations for "bisect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndaj me dysh (cleave). (various references)

Arabic		‏نصف (bisection, half, halve, one half, semi), ‏قسم (administration, allocate, allot, apportion, authority, break up, deal out, department, distribute, district, divide, division, give out, halve, parcel, part, partition, portion, portion out, region, section, segment, separate, service, share, share out, split, subdivide, swear, take an oath), ‏تفرع (branch, divaricate, embranchment, fork, offshoot, ramify, schism, turning), ‏تشعب (branch, calve, diverge, divergence, fork, offshoot, radiate, ramification, ramify, split, split up), ‏شطر (bisector, fission, halve, hemistich, intersect, sunder). (various references)

Bulgarian		разполовявам (go half and half, halve), разделям се (divaricate). (various references)

Chinese		平分 (Bisected, Bisecting). (various references)

Czech		rozpùlit (divide, half), pùlit (halve). (various references)

Farsi		نیمسازکردن , دونیم کردن (Halve, Split), دونیم (Asunder). (various references)

French		bisect, bifurquer (bifurcate), diviser en deux, couper en deux. (various references)

German		halbieren (cut in half, divide in two, halve, to cut into halves). (various references)

Greek		διχοτομώ (partition). (various references)

Hebrew		לחלק לש� ים (halve), לחצות (cross, cut, divide, part, traverse), לבתור (cut in two, dissect, halve). (various references)

Hungarian		kettévág (cut asunder, to bisect, to cut in half, to cut in two, to sunder). (various references)

Indonesian		membagi dua (halve). (various references)

Italian		bisect, bisecare, tagliare in due. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		両分 (cut in two). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りょうぶ�" (cut in two, domain, dominion, possession, sphere of action, territory). (various references)

Manx		rheynn ayns daa ayrn (bisection), jannoo daa lieh jeh. (various references)

Pig Latin		isectbay

Portuguese		bifurcar (bifurcate, branch, dichotomize, divarication, divide, divvy). (various references)

Romanian		tãia în douã (sunder), împãrţi în douã. (various references)

Russian		разрезать (cut, cut up, incise, rip, sever, skive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		račvati se (bifurcate, branch, branch out, fork), prepoloviti (dimidiate, halve). (various references)

Spanish		bisecar. (various references)

Swedish		tudela (divide into two), klippa mitt itu, halvera (dimidiate, halve, into halves). (various references)

Thai		แบ่งออกเป็นสองส่วน. (various references)

Turkish		ikiye ayırmak (cleave in twain, divide). (various references)

Ukranian		розрізати навпіл. (various references)

Welsh		dwyrannu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bipertitum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bisect": bisected, bisecting, bisection, bisectional, bisectionally, bisections, bisector, bisectors, bisects. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bisect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bascelt, basicity, Bicec, Bimec, Biosoft, Biospec, bisacuta, bisc, bisept, bisit, bissick, bizjet, Bsec, Buscetta, isec. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-s-t"
	-1 letter: bices, bites, cesti, cites.
	-2 letters: best, bets, bice, bise, bite, bits, cist, cite, etic, ices, sect, sice, site, tics, ties.
	-3 letters: bet, bis, bit, cis, ice, its, sec, sei, set, sib, sic, sit, tic, tie, tis.
	-4 letters: be, bi, es, et, is, it, si, ti.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-s-t"
	+1 letter: bisects, bitches.
	+2 letters: asbestic, bedticks, biotechs, bisected, bisector, britches, cabinets, cobbiest, iceboats, tabetics, tiebacks.
	+3 letters: abbotcies, abdicates, backbites, bacterias, bacterins, beachiest, beechiest, benedicts, bewitches, biacetyls, bioethics, bisecting, bisection, bisectors, bitchiest, blockiest, blueticks, boracites, botchiest, bounciest, brattices, brickiest, bunchiest, catbriers, celibates, cenobites, chubbiest, clubbiest, crabbiest, crumbiest, diabetics, incubates, obscenity, obstetric, scabbiest, scabietic.
	+4 letters: abjections, abstinence, abstricted, acerbities, aerobatics, aitchbones, backbiters, backlisted, bacterizes, bacteroids, basicities, becrusting, bifurcates, bijections, biochemist, biometrics, bisections, bitcheries, bitchiness, blatancies, blotchiest, botcheries, brachiates, branchiest, breadstick, brecciates, brevetcies, butcheries, cabriolets, calibrates, cobaltines, cobaltites, coenobites, columbites, combustive, comestible, crumbliest, cubicities, epiblastic, fabricates, iceboaters, imbricates, incumbents, lubricates, objections, objectives, obstetrics, outbitches, plebiscite, rubricates, scrubbiest, subcabinet, subcutises, subdialect, subjecting, subjection, subjective, subsection, subsociety, superbitch, switchable, transcribe.
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