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dichotomy
(encz) | dichotomy,dělení obecnějších pojmů na dvojice konkrétnějších Pavel
Machek |
dichotomy
(encz) | dichotomy,dichotomie Martin M. |
Dichotomy
(gcide) | Dichotomy \Di*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dichotomie.
See Dichotomous.]
1. A cutting in two; a division.
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A general breach or dichotomy with their church.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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2. Division or distribution of genera into two species;
division into two subordinate parts.
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3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears
bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the
quadratures.
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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.
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5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
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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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dichotomy
(wn) | dichotomy
n 1: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or
subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western
culture" [syn: dichotomy, duality] |
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Dichotomy
(gcide) | Dichotomy \Di*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dichotomie.
See Dichotomous.]
1. A cutting in two; a division.
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A general breach or dichotomy with their church.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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2. Division or distribution of genera into two species;
division into two subordinate parts.
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3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears
bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the
quadratures.
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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.
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5. The place where a stem or vein is forked.
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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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Subdichotomy
(gcide) | Subdichotomy \Sub`di*chot"o*my\, n.
A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a
subdivision. [R.]
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Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. --Milton.
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