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trisect

[ trahy-sekt, trahy-sekt ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.


trisect

/ traɪˈsɛkʃən; traɪˈsɛkt /

verb

  1. tr to divide into three parts, esp three equal parts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ٰˈ𳦳ٴǰ, noun
  • trisection, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٰ·tDz noun
  • ٰ·tǰ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

1685–95; tri- + -sect < Latin sectus, past participle of to cut, sever; section
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

C17: tri- + -sect from Latin to cut
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Example Sentences

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Could you use those tools to trisect an angle?

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Should it matter if I belonged to a news network where producing child smokers and trisected teens were institutional policies?

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Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

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But logistics are complex in this nation of about 50 million people that is trisected by mountain ranges and connected by long desert roads.

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The three estates that used these three languages before the plague don’t map comfortably on to our modern notions of a society trisected into workers, the middle class and the wealthy.

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