Meaning

2 senses
  1. A line or curve that trisects something.

    Coordinate term: bisector

  2. (informal)Someone who believes to have found a way to construct an angle one-third the size of an arbitrary angle using only an unmarked straightedge and compass (this is known to be impossible; see Angle trisection § Proof of impossibility on WikipediaWikipedia ).

Origin

From trisect + -or.

From trisect + -or.

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Forms

plural: trisectors
Singulartrisector
Pluraltrisectors

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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