EGAVE

bisect

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To cut or divide into two parts.
    The river bisects the town.
  2. verb To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
  3. verb To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
  4. noun A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
  5. noun 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.

Similar words

quadrilateral ac ab part divide mediate dichotomize transect dimidiate devide

Often followed by

the each a it an one ab this them

Word family

bisected bisecting bisection bisectional bisectionally bisections bisects

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