bisect
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
bisect (bisects, present participle bisecting; past and past participle bisected)
- (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.
- (transitive, geometry) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
- (computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
- (to divide into two parts) dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect
- German: halbieren
- Russian: разделать пополам
- Italian: bisecare
bisect (plural bisects)
- (geometry) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
- (philately) An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.
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