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dichotomy
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Definitions ofdichotomy
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- A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
- Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
- The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.
- The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
- A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
- Division and subdivision; bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; often successive.
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