English
Pronunciation
IPA|/daɪ�k�t.�.mi/
audio|en-us-dichotomy.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|�t.�.mi
Noun
en-noun|dichotomies
- A cutting in two; a division.
- Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
- That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
- 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.
- The place where a stem or vein is forked.
- 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.
- conditions perceived as polar extremes or opposites
- an either-or perspective
- seeing things as two-sided and nothing more
Translations
Italian: dicotomia f (all senses)
Derived terms
dichotomic
dichotomically
dichotomise
false dichotomy - a fallacious representation of a more complex system of variables as two alternatives.
webster
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