bisection

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bisection (countable and uncountable, plural bisections)

  1. A division into two parts, especially into two equal parts.
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 276:
      After all, Usamah had served the sadist Zangi and, if read in full, his account presents a picture of Islamic violence no less shocking to modern sensibilities: the collecting of Christian heads, the crucifying and bisections of their own soldiers and heretics, the severe punishments of Islamic sharia – and the story of how his father, in a rage, lopped off the arm of his page.
  2. (computing) The act of bisecting.

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