[ verb ] cut in half or cut in two <verb.contact> bisect a line
Bisect \Bi*sect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bisected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bisecting}.] [L. bis twice + secare, sectum, to cut.] 1. To cut or divide into two parts.
2. (Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.
So village officials have hired four Brookfield Zoo police officers to slam the brakes on motorists speeding through the city and trying to escape the crowded highways that bisect the community.
It also directs the interior secretary to make sure the scenery around the park is protected, calls for closing two roads that bisect the Civil War site and proposes a bypass to carry traffic around the area.
The Netherlands: environmental groups will protest highways under construction and proposed tunnels to bisect the Amsterdam-Rotterdam corridor. _ Ireland: parades in Dublin and 10 other cities are planned.