Definition of Dichotomisation

1. Noun. The act of dividing into two sharply different categories.

Exact synonyms: Dichotomization
Generic synonyms: Division
Derivative terms: Dichotomise, Dichotomize

Definition of Dichotomisation

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dichotomization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichotomisation

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

Literary usage of Dichotomisation

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

1. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"... in the spirit of these historians, the disastrous dichotomisation of the church and of mankind is regarded as a new Fall (schism), reproduced, ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"... which are abnormally shortened, are coarse at their extremities, and deficient as to amount of dichotomisation and number of transverse joints; ..."

3. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"Models of potential winners and losers from the adjustment process were developed primarily on the basis of the dichotomisation of the economy between ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"... at the level of the points where the dichotomisation appears to take place. The cultures preserve their virulence and their vitality for a long time; ..."

5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1872)
"... their bent extremities shewing, besides a deficiency in the usual fine dichotomisation, a smaller number of transverse joints ; the first five of these ..."

6. A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy by George Frederick Chambers, ( (1890)
"dichotomisation of Venus, i. 102 ; of the Moon, ii. 448. Dido (Minor Planet (ïï)), 664. Dien, Ch., his Atlas Céleste referred to, "• 5°3, 5°4- Diffraction ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"The differentiation of the vertebral centra and arches is in this case obscure, but the spinous processes are extremely distinct, and the dichotomisation of ..."

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