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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

  • triˈsector, noun
  • trisection, noun
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Other Words From

  • tri·section noun
  • tri·sector noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

1685–95; tri- + -sect < Latin sectus, past participle of secāre to cut, sever; section
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Word History and Origins

Origin of trisect1

C17: tri- + -sect from Latin secāre to cut
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Example Sentences

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.

Should it matter if I belonged to a news network where producing child smokers and trisected teens were institutional policies?

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

But logistics are complex in this nation of about 50 million people that is trisected by mountain ranges and connected by long desert roads.

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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