Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

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

Online Encyclopedia

Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.

Encyclopedia Home :: BER-BLA

Spread the word:

del.icio.us it!

See also:

BISECTRIX (fem. of Lat. bisector, from bi-, two, secare, to cut)

BISECTRIX (fem. of See also:
LAT
Lat. bisector, from bi-, two, secare, to cut) , in See also:

GEOMETRY

geometry, the same as bisector, i.e. a point which divides a See also:

LINE

line, or a line which divides an See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle, into two equal parts; in See also:

crystallography it denotes the bisector of the angle between the optic axes .

End of Article: BISECTRIX (fem. of Lat. bisector, from bi-, two, secare, to cut)

[back]
BISCUIT (pronounced according to the old spelling "...

[next]
BISHARIN (the anc. Ichthyophagi)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.

Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.