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Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The problem is to divide a line into any number of equal parts, and he begins with the case of trisecting AB.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Throughout those bloody days Chad was with Grant and Harry Dean was with Sherman on his terrible trisecting march to the sea.

From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John

The circle, however, was taken up by the Sophists, who made most of their discoveries in attempts to solve the classical problems of squaring the circle, doubling the cube and trisecting an angle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Conch′oid, a plane curve invented to solve the problem of trisecting a plane angle, doubling the cube, &c.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various