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dichotomy 音标拼音: [dɑɪk'ɑtəmi] n. 两分,分裂,二分法 两分,分裂,二分法 dichotomy二分法 dichotomy二分 dichotomy n 1: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; " the dichotomy between eastern and western culture" [ synonym: { dichotomy}, { duality}] Dichotomy \ Di* chot" o* my\, n. [ Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dichotomie. See { Dichotomous}.] 1. A cutting in two; a division. [ 1913 Webster] A general breach or dichotomy with their church. -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The place where a stem or vein is forked. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " dichotomy": Janus, 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, laceration, mutilation, pairing, polarity, ramification, rending, resection, ripping, scission, section, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, subdivision, surgery, tearing, twinning, two- facedness, twoness
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