"trisect" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: trisects [present, singular, third-person], trisecting [participle, present], trisected [participle, past], trisected [past]
Rhymes: -ɛkt Head templates: {{en-verb}} trisect (third-person singular simple present trisects, present participle trisecting, simple past and past participle trisected)
  1. (transitive) to cut into three pieces Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Three Translations (to cut into three pieces): ثَلَّثَ الزَاوِيَة (ṯallaṯa z-zāwiya) (Arabic), ত্রিখন্ডিত (trikhonḍito) (Bengali), разделям на три части (razdeljam na tri časti) (Bulgarian), trisecar (Catalan), 三等分 (sān děng fēn) (Chinese Mandarin), roztrojit (Czech), leikata kolmeen osaan (Finnish), trissecar (Galician), dreiteilen (German), τριχοτομώ (trichotomó) (Greek), חילק לשלושה (Hebrew), harmadol (Hungarian), trisecare (Italian), 三等分する (san-tōbun suru) (Japanese), tree-rheynn (Manx), roztroić [perfective] (Polish), roztrajać [imperfective] (Polish), trissecar (Portuguese), roztrojiť (Slovak), trisecar (Spanish), üçe bölmek (Turkish), teirannu (Welsh), טריסעקט (trisekt) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-trisect-en-verb-U4h83zp3 Disambiguation of Three: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'to cut into three pieces': 92 8
  2. (transitive, mathematics) to divide a quantity, angle etc into three equal parts Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Mathematics, Three Translations ((mathematics) to divide into three equal parts): jakaa kolmeen yhtä suureen osaan (Finnish), dritteln (German), tree-rheynn (Manx), trisecar (Spanish), traeanu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-trisect-en-verb-Z3gNsfr- Disambiguation of Three: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 85 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of '(mathematics) to divide into three equal parts': 25 75

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for trisect meaning in English (5.7kB)

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          "word": "חילק לשלושה"
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      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
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      "word": "leikata kolmeen osaan"
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      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "trissecar"
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      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "dreiteilen"
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "trichotomó",
      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "τριχοτομώ"
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      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "חילק לשלושה"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "harmadol"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cut into three pieces",
      "word": "trisecare"
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