bisection

Roget category 91

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.5. Number
›› 1.5.2. Determinate number

#91. [Division into two parts.] bisection

noun

bisection, bipartition — dichotomy, subdichotomy^† — halving etc. v. — dimidiation^†.
bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication — fork, prong — fold.
half, moiety.

verb

bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate^†, dichotomize.
go halves, divide with.
separate, fork, bifurcate — branch off, out — ramify.

adjective

bisected etc. v. — cloven, cleft — bipartite, biconjugate^†, bicuspid, bifid — bifurcous^†, bifurcate, bifurcated — distichous, dichotomous, furcular^† — semi-, demi-, hemi^†.

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