Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divide into three equal parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut or divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut or divide into three parts.
- transitive verb (Geom.) To cut or divide into three equal parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
cut intothree pieces - verb transitive, mathematics to
divide aquantity ,angle etc into threeequal parts
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut in three
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Examples
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They would be impressed if you could trisect an angle using only a compass and straightedge.
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Fub says: uh_clem: Actually, they would probably be very impressed if you could trisect an angle.
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But you can trisect any angle with this simple instrument.
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While they may be amazed at your ability to trisect an angle, is it really worth taking up that much brain space for such a remote chance?
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April 13, 2010, 12: 31 am uh_clem says: egd: While they may be amazed at your ability to trisect an angle, is it really worth taking up that much brain space for such a remote chance?
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Actually, they would probably be very impressed if you could trisect an angle.
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They would be impressed if you could trisect an angle using only a compass and straightedge.
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But you can trisect any angle with this simple instrument.
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While they may be amazed at your ability to trisect an angle, is it really worth taking up that much brain space for such a remote chance?
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Actually, they would probably be very impressed if you could trisect an angle.
reesetee commented on the word trisect
A stamp collecting term. See bisect.
August 25, 2008