23 collocations for bisecting

"One case was familiar to mail-coach travellers, where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles apart, met almost constantly at a particular bridge which exactly bisected the total distance.]

They know that the wood is triangular in shape, and that from this, the apex, they have merely to pass the low hedge in front, and, turning to the left, ride along the lower side, and so bisect the course the fox will probably take.

Then the eye-piece is moved till the cross-hair bisects the deflected image of the slit; the reading of scale and head are again taken, and the difference in readings gives the deflection.

The river Kúr, a narrow but swift and picturesque stream spanned by three bridges, bisects the city, which is divided in three parts: the Russian town, European colony, and Asiatic quarter.

This was done by setting the eye-piece approximately to the expected deflection, and turning the whole micrometer about a vertical axis till the cross-hair bisected the circular field of light reflected from the revolving mirror.

On the first day of term, it may be remembered he had wrenched away the wooden bar which bisected the window frame, thus rendering exit and entrance almost as simple as they had been for Wyatt during Mike's first term at Wrykyn.

This distance was measured at intervals of 1mm through the whole length of the screw, by bisecting the interval between each two pairs by the vertical silk fiber at the end of the eye-piece.

It is a good plan, when serving from the right-hand court, to aim for the spot where the centre line bisects the service-line.

I asked, leisurely bisecting a partridge.

For a mile or more it wound aimlessly in and out, occasionally bisecting its own path; finally Miss Thorne leaned forward and touched the chauffeur on the arm.

Middle Canyon, the longest and deepest, bisected the plateau, headed near camp, and ran parallel with two smaller ones, which we named Right and Left Canyons.

Why? Was there aught of significance in that new camp of Monohan's so near by; that sudden activity on ground that bisected her husband's property?

At Syracuse the New York Central passes through the principal hotels,the main tracks bisecting the dining-rooms, with side tracks down each corridor and a switch in each bed-room; but this is an extreme instance.

In measuring the deflection, the eye-piece is moved till the cross-hair bisects the slit, and the reading of the scale and divided head gives the position.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer.

A lofty arch, sustained by elegant and massive marble pillars, bisects the structure, and on either side one may pass from the archway into open areas of spacious dimensions, from which lead passages to the various offices.

Making his way through this familiar haunt of by-gone days he came to one of the long rides which bisected the wood for some quarter of a mile.

I believe they follow a vicious circle bisecting the semi-fashionable world, and theother.

He counted the roofs dividing the penthouse from where Morris Street bisected the block.

The great place for lounging, or loafing, as they term itis Broadway, which may be said to bisect New York longitudinally; the shops are very good, but, generally speaking, painfully alike, wearying the eye with sameness, when the novelty has worn off: the rivalry which exists as to the luxe of fitting up some of these shops is inconceivable.

On these guns I noticed the same mark as on that we found at Houtman's Abrolhos, namely, two sides of a triangle bisecting two small circles.

A canal bisects one corner of the place, and spanning the river there areor werethree bridges, one for the railroad and two for foot and vehicular travel.

He found it best to assume the centre of distance half-way between the centre of the earth and the excentric, thus "bisecting the excentricity".

23 collocations for  bisecting