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Bisect an angle was made up by the marketing team.
Sexy Science Students Sought for Sexy Nerds Reality Show - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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Bisect the sphere and close off the open section, leaving only a narrow slit for entrance.
The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981
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Bisect this circle with the straight lines A and B, which bear the same relation to their enclosing circle that the lines A, B, do to the circle E in Figure 274.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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To draw a parabola by lines: Bisect the width A B in Figure 85, and divide each half into any convenient number of equal divisions; and through these points of division draw vertical lines, as 1, 2, 3, etc.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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Bisect D F at A, and D G at B; about D describe an arc with any radius D P greater than D A, and about O another, with radius O P
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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Bisect it by a line drawn diagonally from the angles, and after this bisecting bring together the outlines of the figure so that it may present a rhomboidal design, reducing it by one sixth of its length and one fourth of its breadth at the (obtuse) angles.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Bisect these distances, and these again, till you have a very close row of tacks, as in Fig. 12.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various
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Bisect DG at B, then about D describe an arc with any radius DQ greater than DB, and about O another are with radius OQ = DQ-FO; draw from Q the intersections of these arcs, the line QD, and also QO, producing the latter to cut the circumference in E.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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Bisect this base, and from the middle point draw a line at right angles to the base and towards the German lines.
Fields of Victory Humphry Ward 1885
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Bisect a Purolator or Wix (or even Motorcraft), and then do the same with a FRAM.
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