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Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - dichotomy

 
 

Dichotomy

dichotomy
n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a division into two, esp. a sharply defined one. b the result of such a division. 2 binary classification. 3 Bot. & Zool. repeated bifurcation. Derivatives dichotomic adj. dichotomize v. dichotomous adj. Etymology: mod.L dichotomia f. Gk dikhotomia f. dikho- apart + -TOMY
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  noun (plural -mies) Etymology: Greek dichotomia, from dichotomos Date: 1610 a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities , the phase of the moon or an inferior planet in which half its disk appears illuminated, 3. bifurcation, a system of branching in which the main axis forks repeatedly into two branches, branching of an ancestral line into two equal diverging branches, something with seemingly contradictory qualities ...
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