Me and my friends have just been having a discussion about it (being the cool kids that we are) and we thought it might be thirded but it didn't sounds right. Plus, it's not in the dictionary. Would it just be a third of X?
Me and my friends have just been having a discussion about it (being the cool kids that we are) and we thought it might be thirded but it didn't sounds right. Plus, it's not in the dictionary. Would it just be a third of X?
To the below, yes trisection came up on google, cut into 3 equal parts. It makes me think of dividing shapes by trisectors but it is kind of the same thing.
But then wouldn't its counterpart be 'bisection'? Instead of halved?
good point
EDIT: Now im no etymologist, but seeing as there are words for dividing equally into 2 (halving) and 4 (quartering) - maybe things were not meant to be equally divided into 3