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Dichotomy
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What's The Definition Of Dichotomy?
[n] being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dichotomy: duality Related Terms | Find terms related to Dichotomy: abscission | ambiguity | ambivalence | amputation | bifidity | biformity | bifurcation | bipartition | bisection | branching | butchering | by two | chopping | cleavage | conjugation | cutting | cutting in two | dimidiation | division | doubleness | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | duplicity | enucleation | equivocality | excision | fission | forking | halving | in half | irony | Janus | laceration | mutilation | pairing | polarity | ramification | rending | resection | ripping | scission | section | severance | slashing | slicing | splitting | subdivision | surgery | tearing | twinning | two-facedness | twoness See Also | categorisation | categorization | classification Dichotomy In Webster's Dictionary \Di*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dichotomie.
See {Dichotomous}.]
1. A cutting in two; a division.
A general breach or dichotomy with their church.
--Sir T.
Browne.
2. Division or distribution of genera into two species;
division into two subordinate parts.
3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears
bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the
quadratures.
4. (Biol.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem
of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it
proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
6. (Logic) Division into two; especially, the division of a
class into two subclasses opposed to each other by
contradiction, as the division of the term man into white
and not white.
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