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

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

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

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GEOMETRY

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

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LINE

line, or a line which divides an

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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

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

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