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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

  • ³Ù°ù¾±Ëˆ²õ±ð³¦³Ù´Ç°ù, noun
  • trisection, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ù°ù¾±Â·²õ±ð³¦î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
  • ³Ù°ù¾±Â·²õ±ð³¦î€ƒt´Ç°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

1685–95; tri- + -sect < Latin sectus, past participle of ²õ±ð³¦Äå°ù±ð to cut, sever; section
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

C17: tri- + -sect from Latin ²õ±ð³¦Äå°ù±ð to cut
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Example Sentences

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This is as impossible as trisecting an angle with a straightedge and compasses—unless gods and mortals are allowed to have an infinite amount of sex.

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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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