dichotomies
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- واژهنامه · Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary di·chot·o·my n. Pronunciation: dī- ' kä-tə-mē also də- Function: noun Inflected Form: plural -mies Etymology: Greek dichotomia, from dichotomos Date: 1610 1 : a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities also : the process or practice of making such a division 2 : the phase of the moon or an inferior planet in which half its disk appears illuminated 3 a : BIFURCATION especially : repeated bifurcation (as of a plant's stem) b : a system of branching in which the main axis forks repeatedly into two branches c : branching of an ancestral line into two equal diverging branches 4 : something with seemingly contradictory qualities