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单词 quadrisect
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quadrisectv.

Brit. /ˌkwɒdrᵻˈsɛkt/, U.S. /ˌkwɑdrəˈsɛkt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: quadri- comb. form, -sect comb. form.
Etymology: < quadri- comb. form + -sect comb. form, after post-classical Latin quatrisecare (1665 in the passage translated in quot. 1714). Compare earlier quadrisection n.
Mathematics.
transitive. To divide (a line or angle) into four equal parts.
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1714 W. Whiston tr. Euclid Elem. Geom. vi. 157 Let AB be to be quadrisected.
1824 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 114 7 A circular aperture in the drum is represented as being quadrisected by a cross.
1914 Amer. Math. Monthly 21 184 It is trisected by the axis, bisected at one point of intersection with the second parabola, and quadrisected by the other.
1996 Jrnl. N. Amer. Benthological Soc. 15 201/2 The..range was quadrisected to provide 4 ordinal ratings of assessment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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