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BISECTOR

Definition: BISECTOR

BISECTOR

Noun

1. One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: BISECTOR

DomainDefinitions

Math

For two elements ei and ej, the locus of points equidistant from ei and ej. That is {p|d(p,ei)=d(p(ej)}, where d is some distance metric. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: BISECTOR

Synonym by domain: bisecting (mathematics).

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Crosswords: BISECTOR

Specialty definitions using "BISECTOR": isocentre. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BISECTOR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (bisecting).

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Expression: BISECTOR

Expression using "BISECTOR": bisector of the angles. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BISECTOR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  bisector perpendicular

7

  angle bisector

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BISECTOR

Language Translations for "BISECTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përgjysmues. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏شطر (bisect, fission, halve, hemistich, intersect, sunder). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ъглополовяща (bisectrix). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přímka (line, straight line). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نیمساز, دونیم کننده . (various references)

   

French

  

bissecteur. (various references)

   

German

  

Bisektor. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διαχωριστική γραμμή (borderline, demarcation line, terminator). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felezővonal (half-way line), felező. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bisettrice. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

二等分線 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

にとうぶ"せ". (various references)

   

Manx

  

liehgher, daa-rheynneyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isectorbay

   

Portuguese

  

bissetor. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

биссектриса (bisectrix, mean line). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bisektrisa, središnjica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bisectriz (bisectrix). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bisektris (bisectrix). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

açıortay. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

dwyrannydd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BISECTOR

Derivations

Words beginning with "BISECTOR": bisectors. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BISECTOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bicestesr, bisacuta, Lispector, Risecote. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BISECTOR"

Words rhyming with "BISECTOR" (pronounced 'Bi*sec"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Depressomotor, Devotor, Dialector, Dictator, Dilatator, Disceptator, Divaricator, Donator, Ductor, Eductor, Electromotor, Erector. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BISECTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: corbies, erotics, orbiest, strobic.

-2 letters: bestir, bisect, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, boites, cestoi, citers, corbie, corset, cosier, coster, erotic, escort, orbits, rectos, ribose, scoter, scribe, sector, sobeit, sorbet, sorbic, sortie, steric, strobe, terbic, tobies, tories, tribes, trices, triose.

-3 letters: besot, bices, biers, birse, biter, bites, boite, bores, boric, borts, bries, brios, brits, brose.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bisectors, boracites, obstetric.

 

+2 letters: aerobatics, bacteroids, biometrics, botcheries, cabriolets, iceboaters, obstetrics.

 

+3 letters: abreactions, baronetcies, bichromates, bioreactors, bootlickers, clofibrates, contributes, counterbids, fiberoptics, meroblastic, obscurities, obstetrical, obstructive, subdirector.

 

+4 letters: bacteriocins, bacteriostat, bicarbonates, biochemistry, borosilicate, brecciations, bronchitises, cabinetworks, carburetions, celebrations, cerebrations, convertibles, cybernations, embrocations, exorbitances, fibronectins, microtubules, obstetrician, obstructives, problematics, recombinants, secobarbital, subdirectors, tuberculosis.

 

+5 letters: backcountries, bacteriolyses, bacteriolysis, bacteriostats, behavioristic, bioenergetics, biometricians, borosilicates, constructible, elucubrations, exacerbations, obstetrically, obstetricians, obstructively, postembryonic, precombustion, secobarbitals, subcategories, subcategorize, subcontraries, tubocurarines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BISECTOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 53 45 43 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    ...    .    -.-.    -    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01010011 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#83 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0053 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3643533937544952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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