Usually means: Divide into two equal parts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bisect: Merriam-Webster
  2. bisect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bisect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bisect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bisect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bisect, bisect: Wordnik
  7. bisect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bisect: Wiktionary
  9. bisect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bisect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bisect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bisect: Dictionary.com
  13. bisect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bisect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bisect (disambiguation), Bisect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bisect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bisect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bisect: Rhymezone
  19. bisect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bisect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bisect: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bisect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bisect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bisect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bisect: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bisect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bisect: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bisect: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bisect: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See bisected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.
verb:  (transitive, geometry) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
verb:  (computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.
noun:  (geometry) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
noun:  (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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