| dichotomy | 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. <astronomy> That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. 4. <biology> 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. Origin: Gr, fr., cf. F. Dichotomie. See Dichotomous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dichotomy |
the process or result of division into two parts.
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