Dichotomy word meaning and definition

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Meaning and definition for "dichotomy" word

[noun] being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

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\Di*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. dichotomie. See {Dichotomous}.] 1. A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. 3. (Astron.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. 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. 5. The place where a stem or vein is forked. 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.

Synonyms for dichotomy

duality

Related terms: 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, Janus, 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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Let's analyse "dichotomy" as pure text. This string has Nine letters in Four syllables and Three vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 33.3% of vowels is 5.3% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YMOTOHCID. Average typing speed for these characters is 2385 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: -.. .. -.-. .... --- - --- -- -.--

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: dichotomy: 9 + 6 + 6 = 21, reduced: 3 (or 1 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Three.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: dichotomy: 4 + 9 + 3 + 8 + 6 + 2 + 6 + 4 + 7 = 49, reduced: 4, and the final result is Four.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
C (1)	3	Empress	Patient, Willful, Strong, Giving
D (1)	4	Emperor	Determined, Persistant, Idealist
H (1)	8	Strength	Couragous, Faithful, Caring
I (1)	9	Hermit	Independent, Researcher, Intell,igent
M (1)	13	Death	Creator, Developer, Builder
O (2)	15	Devil	Optimist, Gamesman, Marketer, Hunter
T (1)	20	Judgement	Unswerving, Steadfast, Demanding, Forceful
Y (1)	25	Knight of Wands	Brave, Daring, Bold, Charismatic, Brash

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