trisect

American  

[trahy-sekt, trahy-sekt] / traɪˈsɛkt, ˈtraɪ sɛkt /

verb (used with object)

1. to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.

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trisect British  

/ traɪˈsɛkʃən, traɪˈsɛkt /

verb

1. (tr) to divide into three parts, esp three equal parts

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Other Word Forms

• trisection noun
• trisector noun

Etymology

Origin of trisect

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

Its meager painted elements consist of thin, mechanically crisp lines and bars of blue enamel, mostly along the edges but also trisecting the surface horizontally.

From New York Times

He shows that if the Greek rules of geometry are modified a little, as they are in origami, formerly impossible things like trisecting any angle suddenly become doable.

From Scientific American