How To Use Bisect In A Sentence

The contrail went straight up, bisecting the Sun, forcing the crowd to squint and awkwardly block the Sun to see the contrail.
The original building consisted of a wide perimeter block bisected by a pair of transverse wings to form three narrow internal patios.
Maybe the bisection would leave a piece of his land isolated and far from any overpass, and how, the farmer wanted to know, was he supposed to get across that highway with a tractor? Interstate 69
The mountain chain that gave the region its name bisected the region, running all the way from the Black Sea to the Caspian. Deathride
A newly built road bisects the site, dramatically improving access to the M8 and M74.

It then follows from the Menelaus theorem, that every three such points are collinear provided all or two of the bisectors are external.
Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance. Take A Second Shot At Understanding Maths | Lifehacker Australia
bisected" structures, globalization and: "What was the last blockbuster that left you smiling? GreenCine Daily
The terrain is bumpy, crisscrossed by steep elevations and ridges not running parallel to the river and bisected by numerous ravines.
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There is a fieldstone path leading to the bench and bisecting the garden.
Located where the bisectors of a triangle's three angles intersect, the incenter is the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed inside that triangle.
In battle, he is a clinical fighter who bisects and decapitates his opponents, lops off their limbs and disembowels them with surgical precision.
Like someone getting their jaw torn off, or a person getting cleaved in half by a sword dissection by bisection? Archive 2009-02-01
There's no need to divorce oneself from the past, but I don't see a need to reformulate and recreate the bisection of society either.
The East African Rift System bisects the horn of Africa—the Nubian plate to the west moving away from the Somalian plate to the east—before forking down either side of Uganda.
North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor.
The shelves and fissures which bisect these rocks are home to edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, prawns, squat lobsters and the occasional large common lobster, which will march out boldly to meet your intrusion.
ALAN D. MURRAY D.nville D.d he really mean "bisectional," or is he just being a cutup? From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Sited at the northern end of the campus, the building wraps around a shared plaza that is bisected by one of the university's main pedestrian spines.
Three methods are discussed to solve the one pursue two problem, they are course method of the initial angular bisector, course method of the instantaneous angular bisector and mid-point path method.
The common perpendicular bisectors of parallel sides (the axes of symmetry of the trapezoids) bisect the angles of the triangle formed by the extensions of the three equal diagonals.
Difficulties include a vast number of crossings at grade and a city both bordered and bisected by rivers, making system expansion even more expensive than merely acquiring rights of way and fending off NIMBY concerns. Matthew Yglesias » Transit in St. Louis
A green crenellated line bisecting one half of a window is echoed in the other half by a vertical chain of red biomorphs outlined in yellow.
There is a room divider topped with an enormous slab of black granite, to neatly bisect the dining area.
We had for-real cowboys, Basque sheepherders, hardrock miners, Shoshoni and Paiute Indians, wild-game hunters from all over the world, various and sundry railroad workers, and tourists passing through on U.S. 40, the main highway bisecting the nation at that time. Beard
Place this graphic over the Crescent site-plan on your computer screen, and you will see that the Mecca-direction line (which Muslims call "qibla") almost exactly bisects the crescent: Nice Deb
The river Seine bisects the city, the Right Bank is home to the grand boulevards and most monumental buildings, many dating from Haussmann's nineteenth-century redevelopment.
Between Central Station down near the River Clyde and sloping up towards Sauchiehall Street lies half a square mile of a dozen streets that meet and bisect each other in a grid of Georgian architectural splendour. Shine a light on Glasgow's seedy side streets | Kevin McKenna
Bisecting the main room is a floor-to-ceiling femur from a prison production of "King Kong" (bought secondhand) which stands against the wall. Michael Cunningham and a new generation of writers transcend 'gay literature'
The strategy governing the operations was essentially the same as it had been in the previous fall, when a drive had been conceived which was to bisect northern Italy and to be followed by a debouchment from the Apennines out into the Po Valley.
He hits a peach of a winning point which bisects the posts.
My own heritage is more far-flung, encompassing Wales, England, Germany, and Hungary, as well as countries in eastern Europe that no longer exist, having been bisected and trisected by countless wars.
Drilling begins directly over the bisection of the angle between the greater superficial petrosal nerve and arcuate eminence and the dura of IAC is exposed beneath the petrous ridge.
We proceed by constructing the perpendiculars at A and B to the line AB and bisecting the right angles at A and B.
Here the zero lines of longitude and latitude - the Greenwich meridian and the equator - bisect.
Today, even as traffic signals multiply and thick yellow lines bisect and trisect the roads, motorists, scooterists and non-conformists all line up together at painfully long red lights and plan strategy.
All the Egyptians or whoever would need is 25 miles to bisect the country. Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel
At the stairs a short hall bisected the rectangular corridor, leading to the bathroom on the other side.
Currently Glasgow is a disunified city bisected by a river that most people are embarrassed by.
The bisectors of the angles BAC and MON intersect at R.
The terrain along this lengthy irregular border was bisected by an enormous tract of riverine swamp, the Pripet Marshes, 100,000 square kilometers of boggy ground that stretches from southwestern Belorussia into northeastern Ukraine. Deathride
There was a tiny lake back there, bisected by the road, and some truly gorgeous houses. It's All Downhill From Here
The highway bisects the road at this point.
One that really caught my attention was of three concentric circles with a vertical line bisecting them.
Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
To the front of the house, there is a formal garden enclosed by boxwood hedging while beyond there is a woodland garden and a paddock bisected by the Corrie Burn.
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Twin arched picture windows bisect the front facade and an outside staircase leads to the first floor.
The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
Shaheed was conscious, despite bisection, and pointed up, 'Take me up there ... so I carried what was now only half a boy (and therefore reasonably light) up narrow spiral stairs to the heights of that cool white minaret, where Shaheed babbled ... the loudspeaker system was activated, and afterwards people would never forget how a mosque had screamed out the terrible agony of war. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
The angle between Mars and the line of apsides is greater than 90 degrees in the unbisected vicarious hypothesis, and less than 90 degrees in the bisected version.
In Convolvulaceae the median plane of the flower bisects the two carpels of the gynoecium and is axillary.
Any new roads must avoid bisecting koala habitat, include mitigation measures, reduce speed limits and provide for habitat restoration.
This happens because any line that bisects an angle will also bisect the opposite side, and will be perpendicular to that side.
They followed rivers for convenience, then struck out in a straight line, bisecting mountain ranges, cutting watersheds in half.
We were doing the elephant dung counts in the Triangle region and headed out to the Golden Highway, which bisected the West Caprivi in a seemingly endless stretch of white calcrete, corrugated in the dry season and treacherously slippery in the wet season. The Elephant's Secret Sense
Meanwhile, the wide aisle bisecting the Terrace Room at Newark's Symphony Hall filled with jitterbugging, jiving and boogalooing dancers.
The lamia are clawing their way out of a four-foot wide, fire-licked fissure that bisects the hollow. Slayed
Indeed, let L P, L Q and L R be the points of intersection of bisectors of angles CPB, AQC, and BRA with sides CB, AC and BA, respectively.
Our pre-war apartment is spacious, with windows on three sides and a central hallway that roughly bisects the rooms.
Thus, if the bisection is not made as early as between the two cells after the first segmentation but later, even at the blastula stage, or at that of the very young gastrula, you can still get twins. Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture
`'Can you bring us around on an east/ west course so we can bisect the anomaly? INCA GOLD
The freeway bisects the state from Cincinnati to Cleveland and carries an average of 34,000 vehicles a day in the area, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Because we were interested in linking spatial ability with empathy, we also included a very simple task of spatial attention called the line bisection task. Ability To Literally Imagine Oneself In Another's Shoes May Be Tied To Empathy
Firstly, Parks hit a peach of a penalty from 40 yards out that bisected the posts with geometric precision.
The blurred line bisecting the map just below figures 35 and 36 is one of the well worn folds in the map_. The Emma Gees
We proceed by constructing the perpendiculars at A and B to the line AB and bisecting the right angles at A and B.
He hits a peach of a winning point which bisects the posts.
Using these simple tools they could construct equilateral triangles and hexagons and they could bisect any angle.
My attempts to bisect a length of 6in piping with a shaped charge would not have qualified me to sink the Belgrano.
A few miles away, old Roger is taking his ease in a chair on the sunny main drag that bisects City Island, a placid outcrop of land humming gently with daytrippers and yachtsmen, the extreme eastern tip of New York City.
The chord of the segment is given, as is its area, and the student is asked to compute its height (the length of the perpendicular bisector of the chord to the circle).
Four more revolutions and the sword eviscerated an herb pot, beheaded a chair, bisected a hanging tapestry, and embedded itself firmly in a doorframe. The Gates of Thorbardin
All modern SCM -- and that includes Mercurial, which we are using now -- support bisectional bug-hunting. Sun Bloggers
We decided it would be cool to test a sword I had (a falchion, actually), so we heaved the fish onto the front yard and with a ear piercing Kiai I bisected the fish with the sword. Fried Carp, Anyone?
I don't see painting/video/dance/graphics etc as pigeon holes they all bisect each other. Questions and Answers
The bisector of the crescent in Murdoch's final Crescent of Embrace design points approximately 1.8 ° north of Mecca (marked "qibla"). The Wide Awakes
The perpendicular bisectors of AA’ and BB’ are bound to intersect at A 1.
Use your compass to bisect an angle.
He added another circle the same size as the first so that the two circles touched at the point where the straight line intersected them and the second circle was also bisected by the line.
One is a cracked mud floor made from local earth, another a stone sheepfold bisected by the museum's French doors, half of it indoors and half in the open air.
It was parallel and modern and ran level with lines of mountain, it was squares to be bisected and parallelograms and rhomboids.
Part of the remains of a railway line that once ran from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, it is now covered in hawthorn bushes and bisected every now and then by the abutments of bridges. Railway Echo No 1
FabricPath is intended to scale this bisectional bandwidth and create a non-blocking architecture to enable more predictable performance. Cisco's TRILL drill: FabricPath beats IETF standard to market
Several civil servants and non-governmental members told the subcommittee it could be fixed with reclamation or by bisecting the runway into two islands.
Having sung in a local church choir for years and my "closet" coming-out accepted by the entire congregation, I wonder if he would welcome me into his fold knowing that I am bisectional. From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Tribal leaders say the road, which is in the early stages of construction, would bisect their reservation in Bolivia's eastern Amazon lowlands. Indian Protests Spur Bolivia Crisis
She recovers quickly pivoting on her lead foot to bisect him with a backhand blow.
The 500,000th signature, appropriately, was from a Nebraskan, pointing out that the only independent study of the pipeline that would bisect her state showed it would yield a paltry 1400 temporary jobs, not the bonanza big oil keeps promising. Bill McKibben: Over 600,000 Messages Against Keystone XL Flood the Senate
Using these simple tools they could construct equilateral triangles and hexagons and they could bisect any angle.
In a triangle, four basic types of concurrent lines are altitudes, angle bisectors, medians, and perpendicular bisectors:
Bisecting Budapest and Belgrade Streets, a wide boulevard lined by bedraggled trees commemorates Béla Kun, the Hungarian revolutionary who in 1919 founded the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic and was later executed by Stalin for his pains. The Return
According to the Times, the artworks are, clockwise from the top center: Rauschenberg's wavy line; Novros 'black square bisected by thin white lines [in 1969, Novros also created the incredibly rich, minimalist fresco on the second floor of Judd's 101 Spring St]; a computer-generated drawing by Myers; a geometric mouse by Oldenburg, "the subject of a sculpture in his current show at the Museum of Modern Art" [a sculpture which is in MoMA's permanent collection, btw]; and a template pattern by Chamberlain, "similar to one he used to produce paintings done with automobile lacquer. Boing Boing
This barren piece of the Green Belt lies between stockbroker Woking and stockbroker Wentworth, bisected by the M3 motorway. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Steel arms, called tendons, horizontally bisect a building's core, stretching like ribs between beams in the walls.
‘The loneliest highway in America,’ US50, bisects tens of millions of acres.
Complete the parallelogram CABD and draw in the diagonal AD which is then easily seen to bisect the angle CAB.
Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The transformation is obvious along the new, multilane roads that bisect fields in the Baigou suburbs, where developers are turning farmland into factories and malls. Chinese peasants feel bullied over land grabs
Well beyond Hokkaido, bisected by the 50th parallel, the isles were typically cold, fogbound, and of only marginal interest to American strategists. Whirlwind
But even then an elementary framework will not attain the broad outlook of Morley's theory that includes the angle bisectors and trisectors under a single roof.
Updates, 4/17: In his interview for IFC News, Aaron Hillis asks Apichatpong Weerasethakul about censorship in Thailand, the sort of music he listens to, "bisected" structures, globalization and: "What was the last blockbuster that left you smiling? GreenCine Daily: Syndromes and a Century.
Our pre-war apartment is spacious, with windows on three sides and a central hallway that roughly bisects the rooms.
The man would drop his reins, go to the back of the wagon, bisect a hundred-pound block with his pick, swing half of it to his shoulder pad with his tongs, and proceed to someone's back door.
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Its installation required the bisection of the western gallery, where slaves sat from 1721 until the emancipation proclamation was read in 1834.
Drilling begins directly over the bisection of the angle between the greater superficial petrosal nerve and arcuate eminence and the dura of IAC is exposed beneath the petrous ridge.
February 26th, 2009 at 8: 02 pm so let me get this right, a return to 1967 borders EXCEPT the fact that Israel is bisected so that the warring Gaza Strip and West Bank can be connected?? Matthew Yglesias » Sari Nusseibeh’s Big Idea for Peace in the Middle East
A woman's sunlit face, neatly bisected by shadow, peeks from the window of a black Ford automobile.
Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
(lead = ` plumb '), i.e. perpendicular bisector; zesvlak ` six-plane,' i.e. hexahedron. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
bisect a line
A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
Located where the bisectors of a triangle's three angles intersect, the incenter is the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed inside that triangle.
To ensure nondecreasing lower bounds, the hyper-rectangle to be bisected is chosen by selecting the region which contains the infimum of the minima of lower bounds.
CN's mainline railway track bisects the Reserve, passing at some points within ten metres of houses.
At this point, bisection of the corpus luteum results in no bleeding, whereas bisection at all other phases results in bleeding.
It's an overplanned, excessively uniform, characterless nowhere full of identical shopping centers, housing developments with pseudo-aristocratic or bucolic names and divided boulevards bisected by grassy medians with identical trees spaced at uniform intervals. Greetings from the belly of the beast
Narrow chin bisected by a small, full-lipped mouth. CRUSH • by Alexander Burns
Nest orientation was then recorded, relative to magnetic north, as the azimuth bisecting the nest opening.
A cursory line from the eye to bisect the body helps to supply the tail angle.
Watahpur is bisected by the Pech River Valley, where in recent months several U.S. military bases and smaller combat outposts were handed over to the Afghan army. U.S., Afghan forces target mountains
It performs a special dance, walking in a circle which it then bisects while vigorously waggling its abdomen.
Perhaps no disposition of ground was ever more totally unpicturesque; and yet even this if it be only bisected, and in a small degree adorned, is not wholly disagreeable (Gilpin Guide 2. 170-71, emphasis mine). Landscapes and Kodak
There is no need to labour this point further than to recall the fateful bisection of the culture of the European peninsula which resulted from the linguistic alienation of Constantinople from Rome; of the Mediterranean base which understood Latin, from that which thought in Greek. The Unity of Civilization
North Korea has one of the largest armed forces in the world with 1.1 million troops, many of them forward-deployed near the Demilitarised Zone that bisects the Korean peninsula.
The city is situated at the southwestern end of Lac Leman, generally called Lake Geneva, which is also the country's largest lake, and astride the Rhone River, which bisects the city.
So common have these birds become that it is rare to drive down the great chalk cutting where the motorway bisects the Chiltern ridge, and not see one.
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Troops were then landed on April 25, the aim being to bisect the peninsula and sever the head of the Turkish resistance.
`'Can you bring us around on an east/ west course so we can bisect the anomaly? INCA GOLD
Located where the bisectors of a triangle's three angles intersect, the incenter is the center of the largest circle that can be inscribed inside that triangle.
The traffic-free Corso Umberto I bisects the town and runs from the massive gates of Porta Messina to the equally impressive Porta Catania.
The woolly-minded sheep - not known for their intellectual prowess took a while to get the hang of the orange wire now bisecting the fell but its presence is paying off.
A double-glazed window bisects the room, which will separate MSPs from their secretaries.
The tented arch pattern consists of at least one upthrusting ridge, which tends to bisect superior ridges at right angles, more or less.
The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
The locus of their centers is the union of two angle bisectors - two one line sets forming an angle of / 2.
And to use it, you create a haystack that is a mylist object, then pass it to a recursive function that'll call bisect () def chop_bisect_object (needle, haystack): while True: head, tail = haystack. bisect () try: if needle Planet Python
A major part of the Mid-Ocean Ridge system runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, bisecting Iceland, and separating the Eurasian and African plates in the east from the North and South American plates in the west.
`'Can you bring us around on an east/ west course so we can bisect the anomaly? INCA GOLD
This becomes especially clear when the bisection is made in such a way that it separates the ventral half of the embryo from the dorsal half. Hans Spemann - Nobel Lecture
The taenia tecti medialis, a bar of cartilage on the dorsomedial surface of the chondrocranium that bisects the parietal portion of the frontoparietal fontanelle, evolved in the common ancestor to neobatrachians.
A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
France is going to cop another pounding as (from my reading) the Iron Curtain will bisect La Belle France. Cheeseburger Gothic » The Union of European Socialist Republics.
Given over entirely to a celebration of painting, it is more or less bisected at a diagonal of golden russet dappling on a field of hyacinth blue, and suffused with ambient light.
Both Royds and Wibsey wards will be bisected by busy main roads which ought to be boundaries, and to extend Wibsey into Marshfields is a nonsense.
** The [[circumcentre]], intersection of the [[perpendicular bisector]] s of the sides, centre of the circle through the vertices Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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