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Definition of "bisector" [bi•sec•tor]

  • Something that bisects, especially a ray that bisects an angle. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bisector" in a sentence
  • "You point the hour hand at the sun, and the bisector of the angle between that and 12:00 on the watch is south in the northern hemisphere, north in the southern hemisphere."
  • "Kingsland High Street is London's North-South bisector [A10] and Ridley Road joins it on its eastern side."
  • "For Hirst, famous pickler of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death."