Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To cut or divide into two parts.

    The river bisects the town.

    halbieren

    разделать пополамrazdelatʹ popolam

    cut in half or cut in two

  2. To cut or divide into two parts.

    (transitive)To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.

  3. (transitive)To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to cut or divide into two parts:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to cut or divide into two parts:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

bisects, bisecting, bisected, bisected
Base formbisect · to bisect
3rd person singularbisects
Present participlebisecting
Past simplebisected
Past participlebisected

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybisect
he, she, itbisects

Past simpleLesson

all personsbisected

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bisected
he, she, ithas bisected

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bisect

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbisection

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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