BISECTING

Definition: BISECTING

BISECTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Bisect

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BISECTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Synonyms: BISECTING

Synonyms by domain: bisecting line (mathematics), bisector.

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Crosswords: BISECTING

English words defined with "BISECTING": Bisectrix. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BISECTING": trans-configuration, trans-position. (references)

Etymologies containing "BISECTING": Bisect. (references)

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Photo Album: BISECTING

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	Small halo, sun dogs, and arc of much larger halo nearly bisecting smaller halo.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Small halo, sun dogs, and arc of much larger halo nearly bisecting smaller halo.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	GOES imagery. Note fog in California Central Valley, frontal system bisecting Texas, and cloud streets north of cold front in the Gulf of Mexico. There is a large winter storm on the East Coast.Credit: NOAA in Space.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BISECTING

"BISECTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "BISECTING" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	81.82%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	9.09%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BISECTING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
angle bisecting	4
bisecting line non perpendicular segment two	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BISECTING

Language		Translations for "BISECTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏شطر أو تنصيف. (various references)

Chinese		平分 (Bisect, Bisected). (various references)

French		division en deux parties. (various references)

German		halbierend (halving). (various references)

Pig Latin		isectingbay

Spanish		bisector. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BISECTING

Misspellings
	"BISECTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gieseking. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BISECTING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-g-i-i-n-s-t"
	-2 letters: besting, ignites, incites, stibine.
	-3 letters: begins, beings, binges, binits, bisect, biting, cities, citing, gestic, ibices, iciest, icings, ignite, incest, incise, incite, ingest, insect, nicest, seniti, signet, siting, tieing, tinges.
	-4 letters: begin, being, bents, bices, bines, binge, binit, bints, bites, cents, cesti, cines, cites, genic, genii, gents, gibes, icing, inset, intis, neist, nisei, nites.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-g-i-i-n-s-t"
	+2 letters: iceboatings.
	+4 letters: bioenergetics.
	+5 letters: cabinetmakings, subjectivising, subjectivizing.
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