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

Derived Forms

• triˈsector, noun
• trisection, noun

Other Words From

• tri·section noun
• tri·sector noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of trisect¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of trisect¹

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

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.

From Literature

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

From Washington Post

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

From Literature

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

From New York Times

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.

From The Guardian