bisect

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BISECT', verb transitive [Latin bis, twice, and seco, sectum, to cut. See Section.] To cut or divide into two parts. In geometry, one line bisects another when it crosses it, leaving an equal part of the line on each side of the point where it is crossed.
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