Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that bisects, especially a ray that bisects an angle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line drawn through the vertex of a triangle so as to bisect either the opposite side (bisector of the side) or the angle (bisector of the angle, or internal bisector), or to bisect the external angle formed by the adjacent sides (external bisector).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A line or
curve thatbisects or divides aline segment ,angle , or other figure into two equal parts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You point the hour hand at the sun, and the bisector of the angle between that and 12:00 on the watch is south in the northern hemisphere, north in the southern hemisphere.
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Kingsland High Street is London's North-South bisector [A10] and Ridley Road joins it on its eastern side.
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For Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death.
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For Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death.
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For Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death.
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Climbing carefully around a slippery projecting rock, its base yet submerged, they came upon the loveliest of lovely little beaches, in shape almost a semi-circle, the water forming the bisector and the frowning red cliffs the arc.
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Thus the crescent bisector defined by these crescent tips is also the same as before.
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Draw the bisector of ∠ C and the perpendicular bisector ←→ of AB.
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The perpendicular bisector of AB must bisect AB and therefore pass through G.
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