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 "
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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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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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