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BISECTRIX (fem. of Lat. bisector, fro...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BISECTRIX (fem. of See also:Lat. bisector, from bi-, two, secare, to cut) , in See also:geometry, the same as bisector, i.e. a point which divides a See also:line, or a line which divides an See also:angle, into two equal parts; in See also:crystallography it denotes the bisector of the angle between the optic axes .

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