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Example sentences for "bisecting"

Lexicographically close words:
biscop; biscuit; biscuits; bisect; bisected; bisection; bisects; biserial; biset; bisexual
  1. The engine had stopped at the edge of a bisecting street, and just in front of it an arc light was suspended, which threw his surroundings into view uncertainly.

  2. At a bisecting street he saw a group, and as he went by them he noticed that they wore masks.

  3. Beyond this point, if the jet retains its coherence, sheets are thrown out again, but in directions bisecting the angles between the previous sheets.

  4. Thus the jet from a triangular orifice expands into three sheets, in planes bisecting at right angles the three sides of the triangle.

  5. The geometric method is, however, usually more accurate, and it is advantageous to have the pupils try both plans, say for bisecting an angle of about 49 1/2 deg.

  6. For example, the illustration given on page 223 shows a number of traceries involving the construction of a square, the bisecting of angles, and the describing of circles.

  7. This simpler proof consists in bisecting the vertical angle, and then proving the two triangles congruent.

  8. It will be noticed that the above problems require the erecting of perpendiculars, the bisecting of angles, and the application of the propositions on tangents.

  9. Still another plan of drawing a line perpendicular to another line AB, from a point P, consists in swinging a tape from P, cutting AB at X and Y, and then bisecting XY by doubling the tape.

  10. Furthermore, it is evident that H will draw a line bisecting any irregular board if the checks B and D are kept in contact with the irregular edges.

  11. The locus of a point equidistant from the faces of a dihedral angle is the plane bisecting the angle.

  12. He would not admit the common proof of to-day of supposing the vertical angle bisected, because the problem about bisecting an angle does not precede this proposition, and therefore his proof is much more involved than ours.

  13. The first triangle given is the right isosceles, showing the angle of forty-five degrees, and formed by bisecting the square with a diagonal line.

  14. Furthermore, the author's reason for bisecting the angle between the vertical and the angle of repose of the material, when he undertakes to determine the thickness of key, is not obvious.

  15. To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.

  16. To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.

  17. M61 The reasons for bisecting the old octennial period into two quadriennial periods may have been partly religious, partly political.

  18. M60 The quadriennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period.

  19. M62 The biennial period of some Greek games may have been obtained by bisecting the quadriennial period.

  20. From A as a centre draw arc K, and from C the arc L, bisecting the semicircle O in M.

  21. From B as a centre draw arc H, and from C the arc I, bisecting P in J.

  22. Miter joint, a joint formed by pieces matched and united upon a line bisecting the angle of junction, as by the beveled ends of two pieces of molding or brass rule, etc.

  23. Defn: To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.

  24. Bisect one line of this square, and draw a line from this point to a point bisecting the opposite side.

  25. Divide the dial-plate into two equal parts by a line drawn from points bisecting the long sides, as in Fig.

  26. Draw a line A B at right angles to the two long sides, and bisecting them.

  27. I wish I knew," said Harris, thoughtfully, "for certain whether that bisecting line points to the north or to the south.

  28. Again, it is necessary for you to conceive in this heaven, first, two great circles, bisecting each other at right angles in the centers of these two magnets.

  29. Instead of hands, the dial utilizes three concentric rings moving around a central disc, the indications of which are read at two bisecting gilt lines inscribed in the glass face.

  30. The straight lines perpendicular to and bisecting the sides of any regular polygon meet in a point.

  31. The straight lines bisecting the angles in the regular polygon meet in the same point.

  32. If an unsaturated solution of the two salts in equimolecular amounts is evaporated, potassium chloride will first be deposited, because the plane bisecting the right angle formed by the X and Y axes cuts the area for that salt.

  33. But his grin turned instantly to sickened surprise as the up-cleaving ax-blade on the butt of my weapon caught him in the groin, half bisecting him.

  34. I took a couple of strides forward so as to clear the bisecting tunnel, being terribly afraid lest I should turn up it in the dark if once I got confused as to the direction, and then paused to think.

  35. Twice I fell, once I turned up the bisecting passage, but fortunately found out my mistake in time.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bisecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.