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bisector

(definition)

Definition: For two elements ei and ej, the locus of points equidistant from ei and ej. That is {p|d(p,ei)=d(p(ej)}, where d is some distance metric.

Note: For instance, if ei and ej are two points in the plane and we use Euclidean distance, the bisector is the perpendicular bisector of the line segment ei,ej.

From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 20-26, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.

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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "bisector", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/bisector.html