Definition of Dichotomies

1. Noun. (plural of dichotomy) ¹

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Definition of Dichotomies

1. dichotomy [n] - See also: dichotomy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotomies

dichogamies
dichogamous
dichondra
dichondras
dichoptic
dichord
dichords
dichorial
dichorionic diamniotic placenta
dichotic
dichotic listening tests
dichotically
dichotomic
dichotomies (current term)
dichotomisation
dichotomise
dichotomised
dichotomises
dichotomising
dichotomist
dichotomists
dichotomization
dichotomizations
dichotomize
dichotomized
dichotomizes
dichotomizing
dichotomous

Literary usage of Dichotomies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"... till they assume an ovato-lance- olate figure, and are quite sessile, small, and acuminate at the dichotomies. Flowers rather small for the size of the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The study of the dichotomies of the branches has thrown great light upon this important question, for "It is to the ascending series of these dichotomies ..."

3. Stochastic Orders and Decision Under Risk by Karl C. Mosler, Marco Scarsini (1991)
"Experiments having two point parameter sets, ie dichotomies, enjoy a variety ... Thus comparison of dichotomies may be expressed solely in terms of testing ..."

4. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"Four dichotomies occurred in this distance. In the model of the adult lung three dichotomies occurred between the first respiratory bronchioles and the ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"... the first and third dichotomies tend to be slightly pyriform ; •while in ... the first and third dichotomies are generally more pyriform than the rest. ..."

6. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"It must be stated explicitly that we do not make any assumptions about the inter-connectedness of the respective dichotomies or unitary value orientations. ..."

7. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one So-called Prose Books of by William Wickes (1887)
"There may be two minor dichotomies, the first of which will be marked by ... minor dichotomies arc also frequent enough, the three first marked by ..."

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