Definitions
being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Word origin
From Ancient Greek διχοτομία (dikhotomía, “dichotomy”).
Used in a sentence
“The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy.”
“But in the fallacy of false dichotomy, not only do the two alternatives fail to be jointly exhaustive, but they are not even likely. As a result, the disjunctive premise is false, or at least probably false.”
“The Ides of Januarius indeed, the preceding month, must have fallen on March 1 at midnight, two days before the first dichotomy of the mean new moon of that month, March 3 at midnight.”
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01“Two-way split”9 letters
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