trisect
verb (used with object)
to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
trisection
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a word derived from
trisect.
Example Sentences
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He also contributes to the history of the trisection of an angle.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
But while we cannot trisect the angle, we may easily approximate trisection.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
As the trisection of the triangle is, perhaps, the simplest of the three problems," said the lecturer, with almost judicial calmness, "we will, if you please, begin with that.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by George Chetwynd Griffith
Stops, each occupying one-eighth of the width, and with centres situated at the points of trisection, answer well the required purpose.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
It would have been an agreeable task to review the history of circle squaring, of the trisection problem, and of the duplication of the cube.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
