different between wartime vs bisect

English

Alternative forms

• war time

Etymology

war +? time

Noun

wartime (countable and uncountable, plural wartimes)

1. (often attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

Antonyms

• peacetime

Derived terms

• nonwartime
• prewartime
• wartime house

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: b?-s?kt', IPA^(key): /ba??s?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

bisect (third-person singular simple present bisects, present participle bisecting, simple past and past participle bisected)

1. (transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.
   1. (transitive, geometry) To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
   2. (computing) To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.

Synonyms

• (to divide into two parts): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect

Translations

Noun

bisect (plural bisects)

1. (geometry) A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
2. (philately) An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.

Translations

See also

• dissect
• vivisect

Romanian

Etymology

From French bissexte, from Latin bissextus.

Adjective

bisect m or n (feminine singular bisect?, masculine plural bisec?i, feminine and neuter plural bisecte)

1. bissextil

Declension