| Dichotomy: English to English |
| Dichotomy (n.) A cutting in two; a division. |
| Dichotomy (n.) 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. |
| Dichotomy (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts. |
| Dichotomy (n.) 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. |
| Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures. |
| Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked. |