Crossword-Solution: TRISECT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Trisect | v. t. | To cut or divide into three parts. |
| Trisect | v. t. | To cut or divide into three equal parts. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRISECT (5)
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle.
Even when they stand about gossiping they fall naturally into geometric figures: if two disconnected men are smoking silently in the roadway, they trisect it; and if another man arrives he converts the company into an equilateral triangle.
Definition: A welfare state is _bhl_ iff it remains meaningful to trisect its membership into the economic classes of Low and High productivity workers and permanent Benefit recipients.
Now, the three great problems of antiquity which engaged the attention and wonderment of geometricians throughout the Middle Ages, were "the Squaring of the Circle," "the Duplication of the Cube," and lastly, "the Trisection of an Angle," even Euclid being unable to show how to do it; and yet it will be seen that the diagonal of one of the subsidiary figures in the tri-subdivision, together with the diagonal of the whole figure, actually trisect the angle at the corner of the rectangle.
Hippias of Elis invented a certain curve called the quadratrix, by means of which he could square the circle and trisect any angle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1951–2023).