bisected; bisecting; bisects
: to divide into two usually equal parts
Examples of bisect in a Sentence
Draw a line that bisects the angle.
The city is bisected by the highway.
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First came the curious talk surrounding the 10-minute intermission that bisects the movie — a commercially challenging choice that nonetheless feels integral to its construction.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
Pine Avenue Starting at the north end sits the city of Anna Maria anchored by Pine Avenue, Bean's original sand-and-seashell main street that bisects the island.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
Roughly 15 million people—one-third of Ukraine’s population—live between the Dnieper River, which bisects the country, and the Russian border.
—John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
At the outset, the sets designed by Leslie Travers and stage director Caroline Clegg brought home the horrors of war as characters in period dress streamed in through the aisles to take their place in a bomb shelter bisected on the floor by the map of the River Mersey.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
Pine Avenue Starting at the north end sits the city of Anna Maria anchored by Pine Avenue, Bean's original sand-and-seashell main street that bisects the island.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
Roughly 15 million people—one-third of Ukraine’s population—live between the Dnieper River, which bisects the country, and the Russian border.
—John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
At the outset, the sets designed by Leslie Travers and stage director Caroline Clegg brought home the horrors of war as characters in period dress streamed in through the aisles to take their place in a bomb shelter bisected on the floor by the map of the River Mersey.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024
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bisect
verb
bi·sect
ˈbī-ˌsekt 
bī-ˈsekt
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: to divide into two usually equal parts
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